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Introduction:
Waiting is one of the most difficult things that you and I can be called to do as believers.
We want to know things right away.
We want to have answers to our questions.
We don’t want to have our faith stretched.
However, God often calls us to patient obedience.
Patient obedience is where we wait for the Lord and we do what God commands us.
I love what Henry Blackaby says in his study Experiencing God.
He says that when we don’t know what God has called us to do, we should keep doing the last thing that God told us to do.
Well, tonight we are going to look at a king who didn’t get that memo.
We are going to be in 1 Samuel 13 tonight looking at King Saul and what happened when he had to wait on God and failed to do so.
Read 1 Samuel 13:1-15
The Details
Saul is called to be king but he is terrified of people.
He’s afraid of being selected.
He seems to waver in what God calls him to do.
Saul gathered 3,000 men to himself and 2,000 were with Jonathan and Saul is called to deliver the Israelites out of Philistine hands.
Jonathan is the one who actually seems to have the faith and he attacks a Philistine garrison at Geba.
This attack gets Saul on the radar and Saul freaks out!
The Philistines assemble an army that dwarfs Sauls.
30,000 chariots - these are the equivalent to modern tanks
6,000 horseman
Troops like sand on the shore
Saul’s army
people were deserting Saul and he was down to 600 men left (v.15b)
Not only did Saul not have an army large enough, they had no chariots, no horsemen, and no weapons (see 13:1922)
Saul’s Instructions
Wait 7 days for Samuel to show up for the offering
Saul’s Fear
Men were deserting (v.8)
Saul takes it upon himself to offer the sacrifice, violating the boundaries on him as king and the office of priest (vv.9-10)
Saul’s Judgment
Samuel shows up right after Saul offers the offering
Was Samuel late?
No, he was right on time.
Saul jumped the gun.
Saul lost the kingdom because he failed to do all that God had commanded him.
This is confirmed a little later when Saul fails to destroy all of the Amalekites.
God would seek out a man after His own heart that would obey.
1. Learn to Wait Upon the Lord (vv.8-9)
2. Learn to Have Faith in the Lord (vv.
10-12)
3. Learn to Completely Obey the Lord (v.14)
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