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Samuel's Five Tools: Honesty, Prayer, Instruction, Encouragement, and Warning

Explore the tools used by Samuel in the book of 1 Samuel to help others serve the Lord and address their past failures. Discover the power of honesty, prayer, instruction, encouragement, and warning in guiding others towards a better future.

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Samuel's Five Tools: Honesty, Prayer, Instruction, Encouragement, and Warning

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  1. Five Tools of a Good Man 1 Samuel 12 Powerpoint Templates

  2. Background • Demanding a king (1 Sam. 8) • Appointing a king (1 Sam. 9-10) • Proving a king (1 Sam. 11) • Addressing a king (1 Sam. 12)

  3. Background • Samuel’s goodness (12:1-5) • Samuel’s reminder (12:6-11) • Samuel’s display (12:12-18) • Samuel’s tools (12:19-24)

  4. Background • What can we do to help others serve the Lord who have sinned? How can we look to the future after a failed past? • Samuel’s five tools: 1) honesty, 2) prayer, 3) instruction, 4) encouragement, and, 5) warning

  5. Tool #1 • Honesty (12:20) • People need an open assessment of their life. Honesty (open, frank, candid, forthright) is the best policy (Prov. 27:5)

  6. Tool #2 • Prayer (12:23) • People need to be prayed for. Great men of the Bible have been known for praying for others (Num. 11:1-2; Neh. 1:4-11; Job 42:8; Acts 7:60)

  7. Tool #3 • Instruction (12:23) • People need God’s word. God has given mankind his word to instruct them (Prov. 23:23) in the “good” (beneficial) and “right” (truthful) way (Deut. 12:28)

  8. Tool #4 • Encouragement (12:24) • People need to be encouraged to serve the Lord with all their heart because of the “great things” God has done for them (Psa. 126)

  9. Tool #5 • Warning (12:25) • People need to be warned that if they do “wickedly” they will be “consumed” by the Lord (Num. 16:26)

  10. Jesus 1. Honesty (Mt. 15; 23) 2. Intercessory prayer (Lk. 22:32) 3. Instruction (Mt. 5-7) 4. Encouragement (Jn. 14:1-3) 5. Warning (Lk. 12:5)

  11. Paul 1. Honesty (Gal. 2:11-14; 4:16) 2. Intercessory prayer (Rom. 10:1) 3. Instruction (1 Cor. 14:19) 4. Encouragement (Eph. 1-3) 5. Warning (Acts 20:31)

  12. Christians 1. Honesty (2 Tim. 2:24-25) 2. Intercessory prayer (Phil. 1:9) 3. Instruction (2 Tim. 3:16) 4. Encouragement (1 Thess. 5:11) 5. Warning (1 Thess. 5:11)

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