{"id":548,"date":"2011-06-19T19:05:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T23:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=548"},"modified":"2011-06-20T07:14:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T11:14:58","slug":"1-samuel-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Their identity (1 Samuel 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"

But the people refused to listen to Samuel\u2019s warning. \u201cEven so, we still want a king,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Despite Samuel’s warning, the people insisted on having a king. “We want to be like the other nations”, they said. <\/p>\n

Because they failed to understand their identity as ‘a nation whose God is the Lord’, they would eventually lose their identity as a nation altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But the people refused to listen to Samuel\u2019s warning. \u201cEven so, we still want a king,\u201d they said. Despite Samuel’s warning, the people insisted on having a king. “We want to be like the other nations”, they said. Because they failed to understand their identity as ‘a nation whose God is the Lord’, they would … <\/p>\n

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