January 27, 2025 • 18 mins
Jayden tells the story of King Saul. Sometimes, we get what we want, even when it isn't good for us. Listen to this example of excellence in storytelling. You may learn a lesson.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to Think About It with your host Jaden Miller.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good day, good day, and thank you for joining me
on Think About It with Jaden Miller.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I am your host, Jaden Miller.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hope you all are having a fabulous January twenty seventh, Monday.
A lot is going on in the world today. Let's
answer this first question. Who's going to be in Super
Bowl number fifty nine. It is going to be the
Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. Yes, that's going
(00:36):
to be a great game on February ninth. And halftime.
Who's going to sing? Well, it's gonna be Kendrick Lamar.
Everybody knows Kendrick Lamar, right, He actually won a what
do you call that? A Nobel Peace Prize or I
think it's for something related to singing or music or
(00:58):
something like that. Lamar is set to take the field
on Sunday, February ninth.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
What else is going on?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Many of our neighbors and friends are being rounded up
by ice and sent back to Central American countries. Yep,
that is happening in the United States of America today.
And of course, when I went into the grocery store
the other day, the price of eggs was hovering around
seven and eight dollars and that has not gone down.
(01:27):
So what am I going to talk about today?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well, first of all, for those of you.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That are challenged in terms of your attention span, this
is going to be a short podcast. I'm going to
make it short, but i want to tell a story
and I'm asking you to really just sit back and
think about it, all right, because this is think about
(01:54):
It with Jadon Miller. But I want you to just
think about it. Don't put more into it than what
I say, just I really want you to just think
about it. So, as you know, I'm a historian. I teach,
and you know, but I like history because there are
(02:16):
lots of life lessons that can be taught to us
based upon history. So I'm going to tell a story today.
So it's storytime, boys and girls, sit around and listen up,
all right.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
This is the.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Story the people of Israel, and I'm talking about ancient Israel.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Back in biblical times. The people of Israel demanded from
God a king.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Now, the story that I'm talking about is biblical and
you can find it in a First Samuel in and
about the eighth chapter. So if you want to go
back and kind of check it out. Feel free to
do so. But the people of Israel demanded from God
a king, but in doing so, they were rejecting God
(03:01):
as their king. God even warned them that having a
king would cost them in many ways. So they were
rejecting God because they wanted for themselves a king. They
didn't realize that the king would take from them more
than they got, but they refused to heed.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
The warning of God. They demanded a king. All right,
let me do this.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Let me just break it down for you and make
it plain because it's kind of a long story. But
I promised I'm going to make it short, so I'm
gonna make it short for you. At this point in history, Israel,
ancient Israel, Biblical Israel was ruled by way of what's
called a kritarchi, which is a nation run by judges. So,
after years of mixed results, and finally with the failure
(03:50):
of the prophet Samuel's own two sons, the people of
Israel demanded a new form of leadership. Like their neighboring nation.
They wanted to be ruled by a king. Now you
won't have to understand those of you that are listening
that sometimes God will give us.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
The desires of our heart.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yes, the desires of our heart, and that is not
necessarily a good thing. Sometimes we want things that we
should not have, like that extra piece of cake or
that extra piece of pie, or you know, drinking all
that soda.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You know. And in my case, and I'll just be frank.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You know, the ex wife of mine, you know that
you know I desire, see the desires.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Of our heart.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Even though I had been warned multiple times not to
marry her, I still did.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Learned a valuable lesson from that, Okay, and that lesson
is to be patient.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
But no, we beg and pray.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And even when it is not something that we should have,
we beg and pray for it. We've got to learn
to be patient. So let me go on, And I'm
really wanted I'm trying to do. Is I'm trying to
paraphrase this story about King Saul. Okay, and again this
can be found in First Samuel, the eighth chapter.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
So just hang with me here.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So Samuel, after being told by the people of Israel
that they want a king, Samuel went to God in
prayer and asked what to do for the Israelites. So
this is what God's response was. He said, listen to
the voice of the people in regard to all that
(05:41):
they say to you, for they have not rejected you,
but they have rejected me from being king over them. See,
the people felt that they needed a man as king
and not God as king. So who did the people choose?
They chose Saul. While was Saul chosen? He was tall,
(06:04):
and he met a lot of the people's expectations.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Some say it was his appearance.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Now I want you all to remember that the devil
was beautiful too, Okay, So we ought not always look
at appearances, because what might be or might seem angelic
could actually be evil in disguise, and sometimes not even
in disguise, sometimes just right out in front for you
(06:35):
to see.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Then Saul was chosen for public acclamation. Okay, he had
once led.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Them to victory, you know, over one of their enemies,
the Ammonites. Okay, But then he was also chosen because
Samuel had promised the people of Israel to a pointed king,
and that was simply to fulfill a popular movet for
a centralized monarchy. They wanted a king. So what was
(07:07):
Saul's role to be as king. Well, he was supposed
to unite the tribes of Israel into a nation. He
was supposed to establish a standing army to defend Israel
from its ops. And it was to represent God and
do God's will. All right, So Saul was annoyed by
(07:30):
the prophet Samuel. Now, like God had instructed, Samuel informs
the people of Israel on how things are going to
change under this new leadership style. See, you wanted a
new leader. You did not want God as your leader.
You wanted a king. So God said, okay, I will
give you what you want. I will give you the
(07:52):
desires of your heart. So now they've got to understand
that Saw will take their children and use them for
his own means to fulfill economic, political, and even war purposes.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
He will take the best of everything in.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
The land for those most loyal to him, and enslaved
the people under his rule. Lastly, when the people realize
now that they have made a mistake. See now, after
some time, you have realized that you have made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
See now you can't call on God.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
God will not save you from the collateral consequences of
your collective choice. You wanted him, You chose him. Now
you got him, deal with it. See again, the people
chose Saul. They were blinded by their own desires and
their greed. God didn't choose Saw. He let the people
(08:53):
have who they wanted. So as time went on, Saw
quickly went from a promising first king to a tyrant
that throughout all of the traditions of his own people
for personal gain. He made promises before God and others,
but broke them with little remorse. He cast out anyone
that questioned or threatened his power. He even hunted the
(09:16):
man God chose to replace him, which was David and
his own son Jonathan, who chose to obey God. Yes,
Saul's son Jonathan chose God over his own unruly father, Saul.
See Saul, he was not good, But that's who you wanted.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Aside from all of the other feeble and horrible characteristics
of Saul, there was also this one called jealousy. See
Saul got real jealous of David. Y'all know the story
of David. Y'all know who David is. Y'all heard that
story of David and Goliath. See Goliath was a giant.
(10:05):
He was a giant and a major force in the
Philistine's army. See, the Philistines were the ops of the Israelites. Now,
the Israelites under King Saul were afraid of Goliath and
the Philistines. Goliath was sinister, diabolical, deadly. They were war
with at the they were at war with the Philistines.
(10:27):
But they were afraid, especially when Goliath came out, because
he would come out every day and challenge them. They
were scared. Under King Saul, they were scared. See, God
has set you aside. Now, okay, you didn't choose me,
you chose Saul.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Deal with it. Now here's that David again, David was
just a little shepherd boy. Y'all heard of David. You
know David.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
In the Bible at twenty third SSAL, he wrote it,
the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He
maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth
me beside the steel waters. He restoreth my soul. He
leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yay,
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
(11:19):
I will fear no evil.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
For thou art with me.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me thou preparest
the table before me, in the presence of mine enemies.
Thou anointest my head with oil my cup moneth over. Surely,
goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of
my life, and I will dwell in the house of
the Lord forever that David Psalm twenty three.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, you've heard it before.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
See with God, David was not afraid of Goliath. See
Saul was because se Saul didn't have God. See David
had God on his side.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Saul did not.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And so when David hurled those stones and dropped Golia
to the ground, and the Philistines scattered like scared, scared rets,
the people cheered for David. David would later go into battle,
and the ladies was singing dance. Saul has killed thousands
of men, but David has killed tens of thousands. Now
(12:22):
here comes that jealousy in Saul. Saul got very angry.
It really upset him, jealousy. It really angered him to
see how the people were responding to David, who had
God on his side but not him. So as David
(12:42):
became more popular, he became a member of Saul's household
and won many victories against the Philistines, and he and
SAAL's son, his best friend Jonathan, David's best friend Jonathan.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
They became close.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Friends, and after Saul he turned against David, Jonathan attempted
to bring them together, but he was only briefly successful.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Saul tried to enlist his own son.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yes, he tried to get Jonathan to kill David, but
Jonathan remained David's friend and warned him of Saul's anger so.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
That David could have He was loyal.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
See Jonathan, even though he was Saul's son, was a
much better man than his father.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
See he had loyalty.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
History now shows that Saul was the king of compromise.
Saul was a people pleaser, but God was never pleased
with him. Now, David, as you all know it, did
become the king of Israel and gave God the glory,
Yet Saul was always wondering who would give glory to him?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Sound familiar.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Saul did deliver the Israelites from dangers such as the
Ammonites and the Philistines, but he was impetuous and foolish,
speaking to quickly on matters without giving them thoughtful considerations.
The consequence was chaos and confusion, empty oats, conflicting directions
in a complete lack of integrity.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
What's more, the nation under Sau was constantly at war.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
See Saul lacked good character and good judgment. He turned
his back on God and failed to follow God's direction.
He even set up a monument to himself. He blamed
others for his own failures when he was told that
God was removing him from his position. Even after Saul
(14:37):
begged for a change of mind, he still asked yep.
Saul still asked, even though he knows he's getting ready
to be removed, he still asked that he be honored
in front of the people, caring more for his own
honor than God's acceptance. In the end, Saul had no
faith in God, and his lies only led to loss.
(14:59):
Our response to conflict reveals our character, and Saul will
forever be known as a coward. The promising king was
now just the man whose promises meant nothing. I want
you all that are listening to understand that there is
not a single great nation in the history of this
(15:19):
earth that has succeeded when the people or its leader
has done wrong, whether it be Babylon or ancient Egypt
or ancient Israel or Wrong or Great Britain or Nazi
Germany or the USSR.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
All of them fail.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
See, God will sometimes give us the desires of our
heart just to teach us a lesson.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
So here we.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Are in this great nation of ours, and each day
people recite the Pledge of Allegiance, our pledge allegiance to
the flag of the United States of America and to
the Republic for which it stands, One nation under God,
indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
This show is called Think About It with Jaden Miller.
So I've got a couple of questions for you that
i want you to think about. So are we one nation?
Are we one nation?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
So?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
With the rising cost of food and our neighbors and friends,
the good people, not the criminals being rounded up and
sent away?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Are we one nation under God? Really? Under God?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Did God sanction the stealing of their land and breaking
of treaties and the killing of Native Americans and the
enslavement of African peoples the hurt that we still feel today,
or the mistreatment of women under God?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Really?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
How about that part that says indivisible indivisible means not divided,
unable to separate, but some of our films, our fellow
citizens are being divided and separated historically and present. And
then how about that last part with liberty. See liberty
means freedom and justice for all, one nation under God, indivisible.
(17:22):
King Saul would have done a lot better if he
had stopped trying to be right and just started trying
to do right.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
So that's my.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Message for those that need to hear it. Maybe you
should stop trying to be right and just start trying
to do right. Please check out my website at www
dot Jadenmiller dot com and please like, share, and subscribe
on my YouTube channel and like, comment, and follow on
your favorite podcast platform. You can find me on Spotify, Apple, iHeartRadio,
(17:57):
and a bunch of others. Thank y'all for listening. I
appreciate it. This is Think About It with Jaden Miller.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Thank you for listening to Think About It with Jaden Miller.
Don't forget to like and subscribe to his YouTube channel,
and like and follow on your favorite podcast platform.
Welcome to Think About It with your host Jaden Miller.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good day, good day, and thank you for joining me
on Think About It with Jaden Miller.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I am your host, Jaden Miller.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hope you all are having a fabulous January twenty seventh, Monday.
A lot is going on in the world today. Let's
answer this first question. Who's going to be in Super
Bowl number fifty nine. It is going to be the
Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. Yes, that's going
(00:36):
to be a great game on February ninth. And halftime.
Who's going to sing? Well, it's gonna be Kendrick Lamar.
Everybody knows Kendrick Lamar, right, He actually won a what
do you call that? A Nobel Peace Prize or I
think it's for something related to singing or music or
(00:58):
something like that. Lamar is set to take the field
on Sunday, February ninth.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
What else is going on?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Many of our neighbors and friends are being rounded up
by ice and sent back to Central American countries. Yep,
that is happening in the United States of America today.
And of course, when I went into the grocery store
the other day, the price of eggs was hovering around
seven and eight dollars and that has not gone down.
(01:27):
So what am I going to talk about today?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well, first of all, for those of you.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That are challenged in terms of your attention span, this
is going to be a short podcast. I'm going to
make it short, but i want to tell a story
and I'm asking you to really just sit back and
think about it, all right, because this is think about
(01:54):
It with Jadon Miller. But I want you to just
think about it. Don't put more into it than what
I say, just I really want you to just think
about it. So, as you know, I'm a historian. I teach,
and you know, but I like history because there are
(02:16):
lots of life lessons that can be taught to us
based upon history. So I'm going to tell a story today.
So it's storytime, boys and girls, sit around and listen up,
all right.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
This is the.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Story the people of Israel, and I'm talking about ancient Israel.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Back in biblical times. The people of Israel demanded from
God a king.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Now, the story that I'm talking about is biblical and
you can find it in a First Samuel in and
about the eighth chapter. So if you want to go
back and kind of check it out. Feel free to
do so. But the people of Israel demanded from God
a king, but in doing so, they were rejecting God
(03:01):
as their king. God even warned them that having a
king would cost them in many ways. So they were
rejecting God because they wanted for themselves a king. They
didn't realize that the king would take from them more
than they got, but they refused to heed.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
The warning of God. They demanded a king. All right,
let me do this.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Let me just break it down for you and make
it plain because it's kind of a long story. But
I promised I'm going to make it short, so I'm
gonna make it short for you. At this point in history, Israel,
ancient Israel, Biblical Israel was ruled by way of what's
called a kritarchi, which is a nation run by judges. So,
after years of mixed results, and finally with the failure
(03:50):
of the prophet Samuel's own two sons, the people of
Israel demanded a new form of leadership. Like their neighboring nation.
They wanted to be ruled by a king. Now you
won't have to understand those of you that are listening
that sometimes God will give us.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
The desires of our heart.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yes, the desires of our heart, and that is not
necessarily a good thing. Sometimes we want things that we
should not have, like that extra piece of cake or
that extra piece of pie, or you know, drinking all
that soda.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You know. And in my case, and I'll just be frank.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You know, the ex wife of mine, you know that
you know I desire, see the desires.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Of our heart.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Even though I had been warned multiple times not to
marry her, I still did.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Learned a valuable lesson from that, Okay, and that lesson
is to be patient.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
But no, we beg and pray.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And even when it is not something that we should have,
we beg and pray for it. We've got to learn
to be patient. So let me go on, And I'm
really wanted I'm trying to do. Is I'm trying to
paraphrase this story about King Saul. Okay, and again this
can be found in First Samuel, the eighth chapter.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
So just hang with me here.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So Samuel, after being told by the people of Israel
that they want a king, Samuel went to God in
prayer and asked what to do for the Israelites. So
this is what God's response was. He said, listen to
the voice of the people in regard to all that
(05:41):
they say to you, for they have not rejected you,
but they have rejected me from being king over them. See,
the people felt that they needed a man as king
and not God as king. So who did the people choose?
They chose Saul. While was Saul chosen? He was tall,
(06:04):
and he met a lot of the people's expectations.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Some say it was his appearance.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Now I want you all to remember that the devil
was beautiful too, Okay, So we ought not always look
at appearances, because what might be or might seem angelic
could actually be evil in disguise, and sometimes not even
in disguise, sometimes just right out in front for you
(06:35):
to see.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Then Saul was chosen for public acclamation. Okay, he had
once led.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Them to victory, you know, over one of their enemies,
the Ammonites. Okay, But then he was also chosen because
Samuel had promised the people of Israel to a pointed king,
and that was simply to fulfill a popular movet for
a centralized monarchy. They wanted a king. So what was
(07:07):
Saul's role to be as king. Well, he was supposed
to unite the tribes of Israel into a nation. He
was supposed to establish a standing army to defend Israel
from its ops. And it was to represent God and
do God's will. All right, So Saul was annoyed by
(07:30):
the prophet Samuel. Now, like God had instructed, Samuel informs
the people of Israel on how things are going to
change under this new leadership style. See, you wanted a
new leader. You did not want God as your leader.
You wanted a king. So God said, okay, I will
give you what you want. I will give you the
(07:52):
desires of your heart. So now they've got to understand
that Saw will take their children and use them for
his own means to fulfill economic, political, and even war purposes.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
He will take the best of everything in.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
The land for those most loyal to him, and enslaved
the people under his rule. Lastly, when the people realize
now that they have made a mistake. See now, after
some time, you have realized that you have made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
See now you can't call on God.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
God will not save you from the collateral consequences of
your collective choice. You wanted him, You chose him. Now
you got him, deal with it. See again, the people
chose Saul. They were blinded by their own desires and
their greed. God didn't choose Saw. He let the people
(08:53):
have who they wanted. So as time went on, Saw
quickly went from a promising first king to a tyrant
that throughout all of the traditions of his own people
for personal gain. He made promises before God and others,
but broke them with little remorse. He cast out anyone
that questioned or threatened his power. He even hunted the
(09:16):
man God chose to replace him, which was David and
his own son Jonathan, who chose to obey God. Yes,
Saul's son Jonathan chose God over his own unruly father, Saul.
See Saul, he was not good, But that's who you wanted.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Aside from all of the other feeble and horrible characteristics
of Saul, there was also this one called jealousy. See
Saul got real jealous of David. Y'all know the story
of David. Y'all know who David is. Y'all heard that
story of David and Goliath. See Goliath was a giant.
(10:05):
He was a giant and a major force in the
Philistine's army. See, the Philistines were the ops of the Israelites. Now,
the Israelites under King Saul were afraid of Goliath and
the Philistines. Goliath was sinister, diabolical, deadly. They were war
with at the they were at war with the Philistines.
(10:27):
But they were afraid, especially when Goliath came out, because
he would come out every day and challenge them. They
were scared. Under King Saul, they were scared. See, God
has set you aside. Now, okay, you didn't choose me,
you chose Saul.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Deal with it. Now here's that David again, David was
just a little shepherd boy. Y'all heard of David. You
know David.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
In the Bible at twenty third SSAL, he wrote it,
the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He
maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth
me beside the steel waters. He restoreth my soul. He
leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yay,
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
(11:19):
I will fear no evil.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
For thou art with me.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me thou preparest
the table before me, in the presence of mine enemies.
Thou anointest my head with oil my cup moneth over. Surely,
goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of
my life, and I will dwell in the house of
the Lord forever that David Psalm twenty three.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, you've heard it before.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
See with God, David was not afraid of Goliath. See
Saul was because se Saul didn't have God. See David
had God on his side.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Saul did not.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And so when David hurled those stones and dropped Golia
to the ground, and the Philistines scattered like scared, scared rets,
the people cheered for David. David would later go into battle,
and the ladies was singing dance. Saul has killed thousands
of men, but David has killed tens of thousands. Now
(12:22):
here comes that jealousy in Saul. Saul got very angry.
It really upset him, jealousy. It really angered him to
see how the people were responding to David, who had
God on his side but not him. So as David
(12:42):
became more popular, he became a member of Saul's household
and won many victories against the Philistines, and he and
SAAL's son, his best friend Jonathan, David's best friend Jonathan.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
They became close.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Friends, and after Saul he turned against David, Jonathan attempted
to bring them together, but he was only briefly successful.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Saul tried to enlist his own son.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yes, he tried to get Jonathan to kill David, but
Jonathan remained David's friend and warned him of Saul's anger so.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
That David could have He was loyal.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
See Jonathan, even though he was Saul's son, was a
much better man than his father.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
See he had loyalty.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
History now shows that Saul was the king of compromise.
Saul was a people pleaser, but God was never pleased
with him. Now, David, as you all know it, did
become the king of Israel and gave God the glory,
Yet Saul was always wondering who would give glory to him?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Sound familiar.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Saul did deliver the Israelites from dangers such as the
Ammonites and the Philistines, but he was impetuous and foolish,
speaking to quickly on matters without giving them thoughtful considerations.
The consequence was chaos and confusion, empty oats, conflicting directions
in a complete lack of integrity.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
What's more, the nation under Sau was constantly at war.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
See Saul lacked good character and good judgment. He turned
his back on God and failed to follow God's direction.
He even set up a monument to himself. He blamed
others for his own failures when he was told that
God was removing him from his position. Even after Saul
(14:37):
begged for a change of mind, he still asked yep.
Saul still asked, even though he knows he's getting ready
to be removed, he still asked that he be honored
in front of the people, caring more for his own
honor than God's acceptance. In the end, Saul had no
faith in God, and his lies only led to loss.
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Our response to conflict reveals our character, and Saul will
forever be known as a coward. The promising king was
now just the man whose promises meant nothing. I want
you all that are listening to understand that there is
not a single great nation in the history of this
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earth that has succeeded when the people or its leader
has done wrong, whether it be Babylon or ancient Egypt
or ancient Israel or Wrong or Great Britain or Nazi
Germany or the USSR.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
All of them fail.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
See, God will sometimes give us the desires of our
heart just to teach us a lesson.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
So here we.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Are in this great nation of ours, and each day
people recite the Pledge of Allegiance, our pledge allegiance to
the flag of the United States of America and to
the Republic for which it stands, One nation under God,
indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
This show is called Think About It with Jaden Miller.
So I've got a couple of questions for you that
i want you to think about. So are we one nation?
Are we one nation?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
So?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
With the rising cost of food and our neighbors and friends,
the good people, not the criminals being rounded up and
sent away?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Are we one nation under God? Really? Under God?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Did God sanction the stealing of their land and breaking
of treaties and the killing of Native Americans and the
enslavement of African peoples the hurt that we still feel today,
or the mistreatment of women under God?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Really?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
How about that part that says indivisible indivisible means not divided,
unable to separate, but some of our films, our fellow
citizens are being divided and separated historically and present. And
then how about that last part with liberty. See liberty
means freedom and justice for all, one nation under God, indivisible.
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King Saul would have done a lot better if he
had stopped trying to be right and just started trying
to do right.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
So that's my.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Message for those that need to hear it. Maybe you
should stop trying to be right and just start trying
to do right. Please check out my website at www
dot Jadenmiller dot com and please like, share, and subscribe
on my YouTube channel and like, comment, and follow on
your favorite podcast platform. You can find me on Spotify, Apple, iHeartRadio,
(17:57):
and a bunch of others. Thank y'all for listening. I
appreciate it. This is Think About It with Jaden Miller.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Thank you for listening to Think About It with Jaden Miller.
Don't forget to like and subscribe to his YouTube channel,
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