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Lesson 4: The First King – Saul Part 2
The Kings of Israel & Judah
1 Samuel 13-31
Last week we started looking at our first king of Israel under the kingdom united as one.
His name was Saul.
We learned that he was definitely the right choice for the job.
God would not choose someone that could not accomplish the mission that He had set for him.
We saw that Saul was the right choice because he was humble, he was small in his own eyes.
When someone, i should say, anyone is small in their own eyes and humble, they can be used of God.
Don’t look at is as a sign of weakness but as key to understanding what God can do through us.
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Don’t forget: 1 Cor 1:26-29
So as long as Saul kept a holy and humble attitude, God could use Him.
As soon as he began to get puffed up in pride, that is when he started to falter and ultimately failed.
So last week looked at His Rise, his week we are looking at:
II.
His chastening
This, of course involves sever things:
A. The loss of the kingdom
There are many things that Saul does here that are no longer a sign of a humble man.
No longer is he small in his own eyes.
1.
His offering of something that was not his to offer
All of us must be careful, in our desperate moments, not to do things that God forbids.
Life is never better when we sin to cover up our sin or get through a loss.
One of the things he does is to intrude into the priest office.
You see, he had been waiting on Samuel to come, he wanted the blessing of God because in that passage the Philistines had amassed a great army to fight against them.
He knew enough that he needed God’s blessing but how to get God’s blessing, he still did not understand.
It is often hard for the human mind and carnal nature to understand the things of God.
It is hard for us to understand statements from the Bible like :
2 Corinthians 12:10 (AV)
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Now hopefully we understand some of these things now, but before we were saved and living for God, we did not understnad them at all.
Just like Saul did not.
As a result of his, God said that his kingly line would not continue.
Notice 1 Samuel 13:13-14:
Another of his sins was:
2. Ordering the death of his son
In 1 Samuel 14:1-15 God wrought a great victory through Jonathan, we will take a brief look at him later, but I think it is worth two great examples here.
Look at 1 Samuel 14:6-7
a) God is able to save by many or few
b) Support one another to boldly live for God
Notice Jonathan’s armor bearer
Let’s read 1 Samuel 14:24-28
3. His sparing of Agag
Now, God is no respecter of persons, and I cannot say what all of God’s intentions were in this next passage but it interesting the tone at which it is communicated, almost that God was offering Saul a second chance:
1 Samu 15:1-3:
Now noticed vv.7-9, now remember v.3
a) Partial obedience is still disobedience
Saul was commanded to destroy everything of Amalek, to spare no person, no livestock and certainly not the king.
Likely, Saul, by percentages destroyed 99.9% of the people and 90% of the livestock.
But incomplete obedience is still disobedience.
You and I must heed this same truth in our lives because we often tell ourselves “Well, I did most of what God wanted me to do.”
I read some of the Bible this year.”
“I talked to a couple of people about the Lord.”
I gave some money to missions.
b) Saul believed he was obedient
c) His wrong assumption
His assumption was that he was on the right path.
Even in verse 15, he still did not understand he had done anything wrong, so he blamed others.
d) He was blinded to the reality of his own sinfulness
1 Samuel 15:19-21
B. God rejects him
1 Sam 15:10-11
His punishment for his sin, his disobedience, his assumption and blindness to his own sin was his rejection from being king.
Now this was only one step of Saul’s punishment.
Losing some things that you have is one thing, later he will lose more.
But God not only rejects him lineage, but now he losing the kingdom earlier than he would have otherwise.
1 Samuel 15:22-23
Saul, like mankind, feared people more than he feared God
Still even in this passage, Saul was more worried about saving face than repenting before the Lord.
1 Samuel 15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.
Samuel would never meet again before his death
C. His Pride
He was haughty disdainful and contemptuous.
That is what Saul was, that is who he was.
He had left his somewhat humble beginnings and now had become a haughty contemptuous person, and only grew that way until is doom.
There were a lot of mistakes in the life of Saul, there is no doubt of this.
But he in his pride an arrogance did that which is unthinkable.
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An evil spirit
2. His hatred for David
He couldn’t allow anyone to be better than him or thought to be better of him.
He seeks to kill him six times.
1 Sam 18:11 21, 25; 19:1, 10, 15
3.
He sought to kill his son again
4.
He kills 85 priests in Nob
5.
He has a séance with a witch
1 Samuel 28
D. His death in battle
1 Samuel 31
A horrible time in Israel no doubt, but in it all, God’s sovereign grace was at work.
His faithfulness to His covenant with His people Israel was still good.
For he had a man, a young man at that, a teenager actually that was going to fulfill his will.
A.W Pink said: “But man’s extremity is always God’s opportunity.
Even at that dark hour, God had ready the instrument of deliverance, a man after His own heart.
But who he was, and where he was located, none but Jehovah knew.”
Lesson 4: The First King – Saul Part 2
The Kings of Israel & Judah
1 Samuel 13-31
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