Not Exalted Over Other Members

Monday, May 4, 2015
Deuteronomy 17:14-20 KJV 

14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that [are] about me; 15 Thou shalt in any wise set [him] king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: [one] from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which [is] not thy brother. 16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites: 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, [to] the right hand, or [to] the left: to the end that he may prolong [his] days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What did the Lord, through His servant Moses, tell the Israelites that they would do after possessing the land He promised them and why would they want to do that? (v.14)
2) Whom did the Lord command the people to set as king over Israel? (v.15)
3) What was Israel's king to refrain from doing? (v.16-17)
4) What was Israel's king to do and why? (v.18-20) 

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
5) Whom has the Lord placed over you in your house of worship or study group?
6) How acquainted is your spiritual leader with Scripture from the Bible?

LIFE LESSONS
7) The Lord ordains spiritual leaders over His people who know, and are obedient to, His word.
8) One cannot lead the people of God without a relationship with the Lord, maintained through prayer and study of His word.