1. Success For me:… For a king:… For Saul: 12:14+15 14 If you will fear the LORD and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God, it will be well. 15 But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you and your king. 9:16 He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. 10:1 from the hand of their surrounding enemies.

2. He takes the credit for the success of others He surrounds himself with the wrong people He puts religion before faith He both pleases & blames the people He disobeys the Lord & loses the Kingdom

3. 9:16 He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines Ch31 Saul dies at the hands of the Philistines Success or Failure 12:14+15 14 If you will fear the LORD and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God, it will be well. 15 But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you and your king 15:10 he has turned back from following me 13:13 You have not kept the command of the LORD your God 15:26 For you have rejected the word of the LORD

4. God’s true King Mark: Yet not what I will, but what you will the Son of Man goes as it is written of him But let the scriptures be fulfilled Peter: He continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly