It’s Time to Lead

A Tale of Two Kings

It’s Time to Lead!

1 Samuel 11

Leadership Lessons from Israel’s 1^ST King

1.Godly Leadership always begins with a

When Saul heard their words, the Spirit of God came powerfully upon him, and he burned with anger. Vs. 6

2. Great Leaders are

When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported these terms to the people, they all wept aloud. Just then Saul was returning from the fields, behind his oxen, and he asked, “What is wrong with everyone? Why are they weeping?” Then they repeated to him what the men of Jabesh had said. When Saul heard their words Vs. 4-6

3. Great Leaders don’t

He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent the pieces by messengers throughout Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not follow Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out together as one. When Saul mustered them at Bezek, the men of Israel numbered three hundred thousand and those of Judah thirty thousand. Vs. 7-8

4. Great Leaders

The next day Saul separated his men into three divisions; during the last watch of the night they broke into the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

Vs. 11

5. Great Leaders exercise

The people then said to Samuel, “Who was it that asked, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Turn these men over to us so that we may put them to death.” But Saul said, “No one will be put to death today” Vs. 12-13

6. Godly Leaders always give

But Saul said, “No one will be put to death today, for this day the Lord has rescued Israel.”

Vs. 13