0360 The Day When Saul Was Stupid

The Day When Saul Was Stupid

1 Sam.13:13; 15:22-23

Chicken and pig was on the way to breakfast. Let eat ham and eggs. It’s small sacrifice on your part but all on mine Sacrifices: Christian selling himself for other nation. George WA. Rick Warren. Soldiers. Apostle Paul There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering Sweat plus sacrifice equals success

No amount of sacrifice can make up for disobedience Story of Saul’s unlawful sacrifice. Samuel came late. Saul didn’t want to leave without asking God for help

Sacrifice only counts when there is obedience Story of Saul’s incomplete disobedience. It was for sacrifice not for himself Sacrifice without love is in vain (1 Cor.13:1-3) - speaking with tongues of man and angels, gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and have all knowledge - have faith to remove mountains - give my goods to the poor, and my body to be burned, IT PROFITS me nothing Go and learn “mercy and not sacrifice I desire” Jesus said

The greatest sacrifice is not always an act of obedience but obedience is the best sacrifice “our parents obey us first two years of our lives but then we are expected to obey them” Story of Saul who sacrificed food but drank blood Sacrifice by itself produces pride, because it impresses people. To be obedient is to be radical Abraham laying his son was obedience but also a sacrifice Jesus dying on the cross was obedience but also a sacrifice

Obedience is the altar of sacrifice Obedience makes your sacrifice pleasing to God Fire falls on Elijah’s sacrifice because of His obedience God didn’t honor Cain before He didn’t honor his sacrifice Fire falls on obedience during Pentecost Obedience is the key to miracles (Jesus’ first miracle) Obedience is the key to blessing (Deut.28; Is.1:19; Ex.23:22; Luke 11:28) Obedience is the key to protection (wise man and Noah and Lot)

SACRIFICE: Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence. Their conviction resulted in untold sufferings for themselves and their families. Of the 56 men, five were captured by the British and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes burned. Two lost their sons in the Revolutionary Army. Another had two sons captured. Nine of the fifty-six fought and died from wounds or hardships of the war. Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships sunk by the British navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts and died in poverty. At the battle of Yorktown, the British General Cornwallis had taken over Thomas Nelson's home for his headquarters. Nelson quietly ordered General George Washington to open fire on the Nelson home. The home was destroyed and Nelson died bankrupt. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their thirteen children fled for their lives. His fields and mill were destroyed. For over a year, he lived in forests and caves, returning home only to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later, he died from exhaustion.