The Danger of Cultural Accommodation
The Danger of Cultural Accommodation 1 Samuel 6-10 “Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel, and they said, ‘No, but there shall be a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, that our king will judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.” For 400 years, Israel has been a nation without an earthly king. God’s intent for Israel was that they would be a theocracy in which God himself would be the king. But this was not enough; the people looked about them and saw that every other nation had a king to lead them into battle, and so they wanted to be like them. For the past 400 years, they had experienced turmoil from military attacks by the neighboring nations. However, rather than recognizing that it was a result of their sin, they attributed it to not having a king. If they had a king to lead them into battle, then it would solve their problems...
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