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Saul, Lessons from a King Pride

Saul, Lessons from a King Pride. I Samuel 15. I Samuel 15:1-4.

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Saul, Lessons from a King Pride

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  1. Saul, Lessons from a KingPride I Samuel 15

  2. I Samuel 15:1-4 Samuel said to Saul, “I am the one the LORD sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the LORD. This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”  So Saul summoned the men and mustered them at Telaim—two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand from Judah.

  3. Amalekites • Amalek was the grandson of Esau (Gen. 36) and married into the descendants of Ishmael • The first contact Israel had with the Amalekites was at Rephidim in the wilderness of Sinai • For a reason unknown to us the Amalekites attacked the Israelites unprovoked. • God commands Saul to enact revenge for this encounter

  4. I Samuel 15:10-23 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. Early in the morning Samuel got up and went to meet Saul, but he was told, “Saul has gone to Carmel. There he has set up a monument in his own honor and has turned and gone on down to Gilgal.” When Samuel reached him, Saul said, “The LORD bless you! I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.” But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears? What is this lowing of cattle that I hear?”

  5. 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.” “Enough!” Samuel said to Saul. “Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night.”  “Tell me,” Saul replied. Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel. And he sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; wage war against them until you have wiped them out.’ Why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the LORD?” “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. 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.” 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. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,  he has rejected you as king.”

  6. Is that bleating I hear? • Samuels instructions where made very clear to Saul, destroy everything. • After the victory Saul set up a monument to his greatness, and had the pride to tell Samuel that he had been obedient • It didn’t make sense to Saul to slaughter the prized possessions, his prideful heart stood in the way of obedience.

  7. What is pride? • The Greek and the Hebrew literally have dozens of words dealing with the nature of pride • All the different words point to pride as an issue of placing ourselves above God or above others around us • Psalms spends a large portion of time speaking on the ignorant man spending time in pride and ignoring God.

  8. Is all Pride bad? • Paul made several references to pride as a good thing. • Pride in our fellow brothers or sisters is a good thing, and even proper pride in ourselves is good. • Every time Paul speaks of pride in oneself it is directly followed by the explanation that our pride must be based in the blessings of the Lord.

  9. How does God deal with unrighteous pride? God removed himself from Saul's presence He also sends adversaries who are “better than “ Saul such as Goliath The first recorded sin in the Bible is the pride of Lucifer and God removed Lucifer from power and from heaven.

  10. New Testament Application • Romans 12:16Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.Do not be conceited. • I Corinthians 13:4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

  11. New Testament Application When the disciples where arguing about who would sit at the right hand of Christ, Jesus simply pointed out that they needed to love the lost and welcome children to salvation. The Bible makes it clear that sinful pride can only lead to destruction, but recognizing God is the giver of all good things is the first step towards humbleness

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