Title: Learn through King Saul (2010.8.22)
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Date: August 22, 2010
Word: 1 Samuel 15:11
Title: Learn through King Saul
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To explain the text, at the end of the Age of Judges, when Samuel the prophet served Israel as a priest and the word of God, Israel begged to give them a king to rule over us. And the first king chosen was Saul, and Saul was very humble and loyal at first, but as the years went by, this text reads about the taboos of Samuel when Saul returns from defeating Amalek, rather than King Saul sin and repent. He exalts himself and lies so that he regrets that God had appointed King Saul.
Saul is a failed life, a failed king, and a failed worker. In other words, a person who has failed in life, a king who has failed, and a person who has also failed in faith.
Saul is a king established by God.
In the Bible, there are many workers, priests and prophets that God does not appoint. Also, there are some people who were established by God and were not doing God's work, but were doing their own work or immersed in worldly affairs. In 1 Samuel 10:24, “Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one whom the Lord has chosen?
1 Samuel 8:5 says, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not follow your ways. Make us a king, like all the nations, to rule over us” (1 Samuel 8:5). Israel cast lots (God's intervention)
In Proverbs 16:33, “Man casts the lot, but the LORD decides all things.”
Saul was not a worker used by God, but worked for himself.
1 Samuel 15:12 says, “When Samuel got up early in the morning to meet Saul, a certain man spoke to Samuel, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and set up a monument for himself, and turned and went down to Gilgal .” filled with greed. He built his own monument.
What was Saul's ending?
It was forsaken by God's regret.
If we forsake God's commands, God will also forsake them. If you disobey God's Word, God leaves. I didn't get anything I wanted to get and it went to nothing. He sought fame, but his honor was like a withering flower. He tried to abdicate the throne from generation to generation, but he could not keep it.
He himself perished, and his descendants and family perished.