1Sam # 13 Saul & Jonathan Gospel Testimony 1Sam 13-14

Berean Sovereign Grace Church

Text: 1Samuel 13 & 141..We are back to 1Sam again to continue from where we left off..2..And we don't go anywhere, where we can't preach Christ...3..I continue to contend that the scriptures do indeed testify of Christ and His work..4..I also contend as the Lord taught that if God does not open the understanding one can not see how these stories in the Old Testament relate to Christ..5..I contend that God didn't give the Old Testament stories so that we may do Moralistic teaching or a character assassination of these people as appealing these can be.. But rather that we may see the gospel preached through them..6..Thus, we continue to develop our theology as God developed and built it around Saul... But in this his son Jonathan is introduced to us also a man of war and God gave a lot of detail to enable us to figure out what God was preaching through Jonathan..7..Many sentimentalize Jonathan as they do Esther, Hannah, Ruth and other Bible characters and if they stop or end there, then know that one has entirely missed what God was teaching..8..When you have a 7 part series on the goldy women of the bible, then I can tell you that Pastor has not been given understanding of these matters by God.9..Saul carried a testimony and so did his son.. And unless the details relating to their lives are related to the New Testament revelation of Christ, they can't be preached alright.. 10..This is true of the whole Old Testament.. It must be interpreted through the lenses of the mystery that has now been made known..And this is free...