“Glory to the Precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ”

1 Samuel 15: 29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen

Hallelujah

Obedience to God

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, God purposed to destroy the Amalekites completely and so through Samuel he made Saul as the king of Israel. In this manner, he made him king and ordered him to destroy the Amalekites from small to big. When Samuel told Saul in this manner, Saul agreed with him and went and numbered all his people and he did not destroy any of the things that were in the first best place and second best place, but he everything that was despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed. We meditated yesterday regarding what this is showing as a pattern.

But when God saw that he did not destroy everything, he told Samuel I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king. Early in the morning Samuel goes to Saul. At that time, it was told to Samuel that Saul went to Carmel, and indeed, he set up a monument for himself; and he has gone on around, passed by, and gone down to Gilgal. Saul tells Samuel that he has performed the commandment of the Lord. In the same manner, many among us without knowing what a monument is itself they set up a monument. Without changing any abomination that is within them we see that they say that they have received victory and that we are running to attain eternal life and such things. But some people remove some big things not known to the world from themselves but when circumstances come they consider that also as right and take the habit which they left back in their hand and say as if they obtained something. My dear people, God was watching what Saul did. He is watching us also.

When Saul told Samuel that I have performed the commandment of the Lord, 1 Samuel 15: 14, 15 But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?”

And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”

But Samuel said Be quiet; “When you were little in your own eyes, did not the Lord anoint you king over Israel?  

Now the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

My dear people, for what God is showing us this as a pattern is that when God has anointed us as kings, priests according to the order of Melchizedek, within us as an anointed one, as the King of Judah Our Lord Jesus Christ is reigning. This is so that till a crowd of sinners that is within us is destroyed, God from within us will be destroying the foreign deeds. If we will submit ourselves for this and if we will consider our worldly things as big in our soul and do not destroy them, then we are doing evil in the sight of God.

We must understand 1 Samuel 15: 19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?”

But Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 

But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal and we see that he is perverse in his words.

My dear people, in this manner only we also do not leave the sin completely and we allow the old life to work in our soul by perverse words.

God hates the perverse mouth. Wickedness is an abomination before him.

Then, 1 Samuel 15: 22, 23 So Samuel said: “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.”

If we do not obey God, God will reject us.

But Saul said to Samuel I have sinned because I have not obeyed God. for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord.” But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.” And as Samuel turned around to go away, Saul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore.

This is what God tore the kingdom from the hand of Saul.

1 Samuel 15: 28 So Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbour of yours, who is better than you. 

Saul asked for forgiveness, but God did not forgive him because he was anointed as king and he experienced God’s blessings. Also, again he told God “I have sinned; yet honour me now, please, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”

But because Saul called Samuel turns back and goes with him.

1 Samuel 15: 32 Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag king of the Amalekites here to me.” So Agag came to him cautiously. And Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

And Samuel went no more to see Saul until the day of his death. Nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul, and the Lord regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.

God did not forgive Saul because it is written in God’s word The fear of man brings a snare.

Hebrews 6: 4 – 6 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 

and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 

if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put Him to an open shame.

Also, Hebrews 10: 26, 27 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

Therefore, to escape from God’s fiery indignation if we will always obey the voice of God, our prayers will be surely heard by God. Forever he will abide with us. Let us all submit and pray.

- To be continued