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Treehouse Homegroup Meeting – 1 Samuel 10-13

Chapter 10
Karina – Spurgeon’s Sermon – ”Hiding Among the Stuff” (http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols58-60/chs3322.pdf)
Spurgeon says – May we not assume wrongdoing on Saul’s part, instead let’s assume it was ”mock modesty.”
Saul’s actions after he became king were wise – made peace with men speaking badly about him instead of killing him
Christians hid away among stuff
First half – addressed sinners
- While Saul was hiding from an earthly crown, sinners hide from a heavenly crown.
- ”Stuff” that sinners hide from is worldliness, opportunities which might led them to be saved (avoid churches, preachers, etc.)
- Challenges Christians to go ”hunt among the stuff” for the unbelievers and bring them out
The second half addresses the Christians – we may not hide ourselves from heavenly crowns, but we may hide from more specific crowns.
- One crown is the crown of the victorious suppliment – a person who prays (Jacob, Martin Luther) – sometimes our prayer is swallowed up in the pressures of business
- Another crown is the crown we receive from feasting and fellowshipping with Christ

Dad/Mark – Thing that struck me the most was ”Do whatever your hand finds to do and God is with you.” (1 Samuel 10:7)
- expresses a lot of freedom in God’s will
- We are made in His image
- Adam and Eve – Can eat from any tree in the garden, with just one boundary
- Colossians 3:23 – ”Whatever you do …” (Paul says to slaves)

Chapter 12
Exposition by Spurgeon – ”Harvest Time” http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols49-51/chs2896.pdf
Hannah – asking the Lord for things and God giving them to you even if it might not be the best thing – Hezekiah example, granted him living longer, but perhaps Manassah would not have been born if Hezekiah had died sooner!!! (not sure if accurate?) So – we don’t need to be afraid of asking the Lord for things in prayer, even if it’s not exactly the right way or the right motives.
Christ came from the kings! So this WAS God’s plan!
Dad – The people asked for a king but didn’t ask in prayer, didn’t ask God
But isn’t going to Samuel like going to God?
Richard – Samuel actually tells the people not to be afraid

Richard – John Piper – ”The Sinful Origin of the Son of David”
- God planned a kingship from the beginning for Israel; and Christ came from the kings – King of King and Lord of Lords
6 points on what we learn from the fact that Christ came from sinful origins:
1. We are a stiff necked, rebellious people – insisting that they want a human king when they had God as king
2. God is faithful to His own Name – 1 Sam 12:22 – The Lord will not forsake His people for His name’s sake
3. The grace that sinners receive flows form God’s supreme allegiance to His own name. Samuel says to the people, ”Do not be afraid. You have done evil.” Shouldn’t it say Be Afraid?! Pure grace right there!
4. Kingship belongs only to God – every king was wicked, even David was wicked! The story of the kings is to show that no man can be king. (Hannah says – Thomas Paine – Common Sense) (Derek says – 1 Samuel 13:13-14 – There IS one king that did all that God commanded – Christ!)
5. A ”God-Man” must be king. A man had to die to pay for our sins
6. A King died for His people. Needed to be a human king. God can’t die. Only man can die. Rightful king of Israel must be God, king must die for people so must be man, therefore must be God-Man.

Mom – The whole line of the Messiah shows how merciful God is! The women included in the geneoligies of the Messiah, Rehab, Tamar, just God’s mercy that led to Jesus being born!

Richard – The people asking for a king, which was bad, actually was a blessing, to bring Christ – God changes our sin to glorify Himself and bring us to Him! To be with Him! So when Samuel ways, ”Do not be afraid,” we really don’t have to be even when we have done evil.

Mom – We can pray with confidence, verbalize to God that this is our desire but that our ultimate desire is for Him to be glorified and for it to be His will.

Richard – the cool ending – In every gospel Jesus is asked, ”Are you the king of the Jews?” And Jesus says, ”It is as you say.” But He is not JUST the king of the Jews, He is the King of all. Revelation – on His robe and thigh He has His name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lord

Hannah – Harvest Time – 1 Samuel 12:17
Wheat harvest takes place in month of May when weather is settled and a thunderstorm would be rare. So wouldn’t a thunderstorm destroy all the crops? A punishment on the people?
Mark/Dad – If it rained during harvest, they couldn’t get the crops. Crops couldn’t get out because of mud, etc. And grain and crops would be wet and ruin the crops, knock down the crops, when wheat is ripe, bends over easily, can bend and break, rot on ground.
Hannah – Rain is like repentance – Phenomeon of nature often empresses God’s power on people (Dad – doesn’t seem to anymore as much)

Mom – 1 Samuel 12 – A theme of the whole chapter is that we should make a conscious effort to consider the great things God has done for us and the wicked things we have done. 1 Samuel 12:7 – Samuel says, ”I will confront you about all the righteous acts before the Lord…” And also verse 16 – ”Now see the great things the Lord is doing before our eyes and see the great thing the Lord is about to do today. … Realize that your wickedness is great.”
Serve the Lord faithfully and consider the great things He has done for you – AMP says, ”Consider how great are the things He has done for you.”

For next time – discussion of 13 and the sermon, and chapter 14 and possibly 15

There are three sermons of Spurgeon’s between 1 Samuel 10-13. Here they are:

Hiding Among the Stuff (1 Sam 10:22-23)
http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols58-60/chs3322.pdf

Harvest Time (1 Sam 12:17) (This is the first sermon of Spurgeon to be printed.)
http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols49-51/chs2896.pdf
OR http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/2896.htm

Samuel: An Example of Intercession (1 Sam 12:23)
http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols25-27/chs1537.pdf