We Want a King!

The Gospel According to David

We Want a King!

Chris Honess, Lead Pastor

April 12, 2026

God has given us a gift of power.

So God created mankind in his own image, … God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature …

Genesis 1:26-28

We have abused our power.

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 3:6

But Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs—everything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed.

1 Samuel 15:9

Stewarding God’s gift of power:

1.) Stay human-sized.

Early in the morning Samuel got up and went to meet Saul, but he was told, “Saul has gone to Carmel. There he has set up a monument in his own honor and has turned and gone on down to Gilgal.”

1 Samuel 15:12

For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Luke 14:11

2.) Stay simple.

Why did you not obey the Lord? Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the Lord?”

1 Samuel 15:19

3.) Stay humble.

Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned. I violated the Lord’s command and your instructions. I was afraid of the men and so I gave in to them.

1 Samuel 15:24

4.) Stay under the true King.

But Samuel replied: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To bey is better than sacrifice, and to heed in better than the fat of rams.

1 Samuel 15:22