Breaking the Family Curse Part 4 "King Saul"
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And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.
Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer’s house is.
And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.
And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father’s house?
And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
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Introduction.
(Genetic Memory)
The most important set of genetic instructions we all get comes from our DNA, passed down through generations. But the environment we live in can make genetic changes, too.
Last year, researchers discovered that these kinds of environmental genetic changes can be passed down for a whopping 14 generations in an animal – the largest span ever observed in a creature, in this case being a dynasty of C. elegans nematodes (roundworms).
There are many examples of this phenomenon in worms and mice, but the study of environmental epigenetic inheritance in humans is a hotly debated topic, and there's still a lot we don't know.
"Inherited effects in humans are difficult to measure due to the long generation times and difficulty with accurate record keeping," stated one recent review of epigenetic inheritance.
But some research suggests that events in our lives can indeed affect the development of our children and perhaps even grandchildren - all without changing the DNA.
For example, studies have shown that both the children and grandchildren of women who survived the Dutch famine of 1944-45 were found to have increased glucose intolerance in adulthood.
Other researchers have found that the descendants of Holocaust survivors have lower levels of the hormone cortisol, which helps your body bounce back after trauma.
The 2017 study on nematodes is an important step towards understanding more about our own epigenetic inheritance - especially because it serves as a remarkable demonstration of how long-lasting these inter-generational effects may be.
Deut 23:2 tells us that an illegitimate child cannot enter the congregation for 10 generations.
Forty years in a generation. Their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was an illegitimate child, he’s out of the picture! Now what? Show me where it was changed. 59-0301M - Strait Is The Gate
That’s how bad that hybreeding was; that was a woman that let another man live with her in order to bring forth a child, that that child was hybrid, not by its father but by some other man. See?
And that was so evil before God, it taken ten generations to ever breed that out again, before God.
42 But that doesn’t apply to this age. You have a new Birth now. They had just one birth back there, that was the actual sexual breeding.
We have this new Birth now which is the spiritual, that breeds out all the cull. And we are new creatures in Christ Jesus, born again of the Spirit of God. New creatures!
On the word creature, if some of you good scholars here that understand (If you don’t, you might look it up.), the creature comes from the Greek word of “a new creation.”
Oh, the same as you are a creature here, born sexually; you are then a new creation, born Heavenly. Of…in God’s new creation of a new man. New creation, at the Birth.
But it has to be a birth, just the same as the natural birth is necessary; the spiritual Birth is just as necessary as the natural birth.
43 Young couple might get married and say, “Our first little boy, we’re going to call ‘John.’” If he’s never born, John’s never here. That’s all.
Same thing, you might…how many mythical ideas you build up about Heaven, how great it is, if you’re not born again you’ll not be there. 60-1211M - The Ten Virgins, And The Hundred And Forty-Four Thousand Jews
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Saul’s genetic memories were of the tribe of Benjamin’s failures.
There is a brutal story that came from the Book of Judges, just a couple generations back.
A Levite was traveling through Benjamite territory and comes to the town of Gibeah.
The men of that city were so vile that they acted just like the men of Sodom, which was destroyed by fire.
The man sends out his concubine and she is horrifically treated and dies from the assaults.
And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
(Example: Guilt by association)
Good men who do nothing are as guilty as the perpetrators.
The ravening wolf is coming out in Benjamin.
And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:
But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.
In chapter 21 the men of Benjamin were reduced to kidnapping wives from other tribes so they could continue to be a tribe.
The sad epilogue.
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
What a terrible thing to have in your memory bank.
Saul’s father Kish was a resident of Gibeah, and had lifted himself out of this condition. He was a self made man.
Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
He was a wealthy man.
And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
Saul was looking for his father’s donkeys and runs across Samuel.
And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.
And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father’s house?
And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
Samuel tells him that he was the most popular man in Israel.
And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord to Mizpeh;
And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:
And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes, and by your thousands.
And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.
Therefore they inquired of the Lord further, if the man should yet come thither. And the Lord answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff.
And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.
50 So they chose themselves a man named Saul, which was the son of Kish. And he was a reputable man, an honorable man.
But he suited the people just right, because he was a great, tall, noble, statue of a man. The Scripture said he was head and shoulders above any man in Israel.
He was kingly-looking, and he was handsome in the face. He was a brilliant and an extraordinary man.
51 Now, that’s the kind of man that the people like to choose today. The people does not seem to be satisfied with the way that God placed His Church, to be governed and controlled by the Holy Spirit.
They want somebody, some man, some denomination, some certain peoples to govern the Church. That, they’re not able to throw themselves completely into God’s hand, to be spiritual, to be led by the Holy Spirit.
They want somebody to do their religion for them, somebody that will tell them just how to do it, and all about it.
(Tapes only. Controlling pastors)
52 So this man seemed to suit the place exactly, because he was a very intellectual man.
53 And it’s a whole lot like today. We like to choose such people, too, to control our churches, to control the Church of God.
Nothing that I have to say against it, but just merely to make a point, that: it is not, it was not, and it will never be the will of God, for such to be. God is to rule His people, to govern each individual. 60-0515M - The Rejected King
Saul failed in the first real crisis of his reign.
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.
And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the Lord: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.
Conclusion.
Why would Saul make this rash decision? He was a Benjamite. Benjamin had been nearly destroyed. By taking action to prevent what he feared most, he caused his own downfall.
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
47 Listen just a minute. “If our heart condemn us not…” But if there’s something in your life that condemns you, you’d better make that thing right. I don’t care what in the world you…
You just can’t operate right. The Holy Spirit can’t deal with you. When you got prejudice, and selfishness, and all those things in you, the Holy Spirit can never bless you. You might get some intellectual emotions, some work-up.
Let me just explain something to you. For instance, when a women gets married, and she’s afraid that she’s not going to have a baby. She won’t have it. No. But let her go and adopt a baby, then she’ll have one.
Now, the books claim that that’s nine out of ten will do that. Why? It sets her body into the right emotion. Now, you see if…Ask your doctor if that’s not right. Why? It puts her in the right attitude.
48 Job said, “The things that I feared worse is come upon me.” See, you don’t…You want to be above everything, where there’s no condemnation or nothing to you.
You got to live like real Christians. Live in the Presence of God. Live daily, hourly, momently. Say nothing, do nothing, go nowhere.
Let it be Christ-like everything you do, all your actions. 59-0609 - What Hearest Thou, Elijah?