The story in our passage for tonight is what happens when the Spirit of the LORD turns Saul into another man!
We sometimes talk about how the first Joshua resembles the second Joshua (our Lord Jesus). Perhaps we should also talk about how the first Saul resembles the second Saul (the apostle Paul).
Both have a remarkable encounter with God (this Saul with the Holy Spirit – in Acts it will be the exalted Lord Jesus) And both, it could be said, were turned into another man!
Now, at first blush, 1 Samuel 10-12 sounds awfully pro-Saul. Israel sinned in rejecting the LORD as king, but Saul seems to do everything right! In other words, our author is an honest man. He admits that Saul started out well. But he also hints at what is to come...
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