Aim: To recognize that everyone needs God as their father.
Doctrine: Without God as our Father our lives completely unravel. Israel's king was to represent God's Fatherhood to the church; the wrong (or no) ''king'' leads to disaster.
Exegesis: A sampling of ''fathers'' in ancient Israel: some of them did not seem to have a clue (vv. 1-9); some of them were rightly cautious (vv. 10-15); some of them possessed some moral sense (though it was still flawed) (vv. 16-21).
Further application: What the church is to glean from biblical accounts such as these: that without good gospel doctrine, people act like demons; and that God's choice of undershepherds makes all the difference.
Key phrase: v. 1a ''And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote mountains of Ephraim.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.