When God says “Enough”!

A Tale of Two Kings

When God says “Enough”!

1 Samuel 15

Powerful Principles from a Disobedient Kiing

1. Disobedience to God always has an

But Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs—everything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed. Then the word of the 

Lord came to Samuel: “I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions.” Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the Lord all that night. Vs. 9-11

Common Excuses for our Disobedience

• Convincing myself

When Samuel reached him, Saul said, “The Lord bless you! I have carried out the Lord’s instructions.” Vs. 13

• It’s always

Saul answered, “The soldiers brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the Lord your God, but we totally destroyed the rest.”

Vs. 15

• Obedience

“But I did obey the Lord,” Saul said. “I went on the mission the Lord assigned me. I completely destroyed the Amalekites and brought back Agag their king. Vs. 20

• A

The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the Lord your God at Gilgal. Vs. 21

2. God desires our not just our

But Samuel replied: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.

Vs. 22-23

3. Choose to above

Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned. I violated the Lord’s command and your instructions. I was afraid of the men and so I gave in to them.  Vs. 24

Saul replied, “I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel; come back with me, so that I may worship the Lord your God.”  Vs. 30

Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.

Proverbs 29:25

4. Sometimes Sin needs to be handled

Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him in chains. And he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.” But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel put Agag to death before the Lord at Gilgal. Vs. 33-34