The Simple Path to Victory

Sermon:        The Simple Path to Victory            1 Samuel 7

I.  Called to Repentance  (2-6)

II.  Dependent Prayer & Obedience  (7-10)

III.   Remembering God’s Mercy  (11-17)

      “All is well in Israel. Yahweh rules by his prophet. The land is secure. We have seen a major crisis met and surmounted by Samuel’s leadership. Our narrator would have us believe that at this point in history the people of Israel could perpetrate no greater breach of trust, no more arbitrary exercise of self-will, no more senseless deed of vanity than to demand for themselves a human king.” (McCarter, 1 Samuel, 151)