LIFE LESSON FOR TODAY, 7/24/14

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PAINTING, DAVID PLAYS HARP FOR KING SAUL

BY REMBRANDT,  CREATED CIRCA 1650-1670





Today, I'll  look at one of the people from
the Old Testaments who disobeyed to the 
Lord.  I'll share scriptures about King Saul. 
He was disobedient and lost his kingdom.




LIFE LESSON:

 SAMUEL TELLS KING SAUL, THAT THE LORD
WANTS ALL OF THE AMALEKITES KILLED. 
THEY ATTACKED THE ISRAELITES.


1 SAMUEL 15:1-3

1 Samuel also said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore, heed the voice of the words of the Lord.
2 Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt.
3 Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
LIFE LESSON:

SAMUEL TELLS KING SAUL THAT HE DISOBEYED THE LORD.  HE SPARED THE KING OF AMALEK AND KEPT THE SPOILS.  THE LORD WILL TAKE ISRAEL FROM HIM.

 

1 SAMUEL  15: 15-19, 24, 26-28

15  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.”
16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Be quiet! And I will 
tell you what the Lord said to me last night.”And 
he said to him, “Speak on.”
17 So Samuel said, “When you were little in your own eyes,  were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the Lord anoint you king over Israel?
18 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.’ 
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?”

24 Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.


26 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.”
27 And as Samuel turned around to go away, Saul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore.  
28 So Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.







ISRAEL


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