Ten 10 Lessons from Saul's Rebellion, Part II

This 2 part lesson highlights some important things to learn from the fall of King Saul. It will show you how to correctly walk in the will of God, to walk with God and work for God.
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Ten 10 Lessons from Saul's Rebellion, Part II
5. You cannot gain by sacrifice what you lose by disobedience.
Saul, having been found in rebellion and confronted with his sin thought he could simply rectify the error by sacrifice and all things return to normal. He was mistaken. This last episode was the last straw that broke the Carmel's back. Meanwhile, his heart was not right about the sacrifice, it was not in repentance, it was to save him some honour before his people.
1 Samuel 15:22-23
6. To offer your sacrifice in obedience is better than offering sacrifice for disobedience.
7. God is long suffering but His long suffering can be eroded.
2 Peter 3:9, 15
This longsuffering is salvation for the unbelieving. However, there comes a time when the longsuffering lapse. Failure to accept the outstretched arm of fellowship from God would lead to judgement.
Judgement of the ungodly. Amorites example, Genesis 15:13-16
Judgement of the man in Christ. The Church at Corinth, 1 Corinthians 11:27-32
8. Disobedience of God's word is rebellion, total rejection of God.
1 Samuel 15:22-23
Samuel earlier told them, disobedience is rebellion.
1 Samuel 12:14-15
Caleb and Joshua told Israel the same.
Numbers 14:6-9
Moses said the same.
Deuteronomy 9:7, 24
9. Repentance cannot take place without godly sorrow.
One major sign post of repentance is godly sorrow, when you're gutted for your actions and terribly sorry you acted in indiscretion, in disobedience to God. Just like rebellion and every evil that man does originates in the heart, godly sorrow also takes place in the heart.
Matthew 12:33-35
Matthew 15:17-20
When God would execute his work of redemption, he target the heart for regeneration.
2 Corinthians 4:3-6
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Godly sorrow leads to repentance and leaves no regret.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
After denying for a while, Saul admitted his sin but wanted the worship to proceed to cover his honour before the people. He cared more about his public image than a right heart before God.
1 Samuel 15:30
Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.
This is just as Esau who sort his father's blessing with tears from an unrepentant heart. Genesis 27:30-41, Hebrews 12:16-17
Hebrews 12:16-17
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
But compare the man David, who was confronted with his sin and immediately admitted guilt and repented.
2 Samuel 12:11-14
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
10. Supernatural guidance or spiritual instruction trumps intelligent but independent thinking.
Saul's creative thinking to take what he considered good in the land of the Amalek and sacrifice them to God was ruinous eventually deinstitutionalized him and his family as king in Israel because it was a flagrant contravention of God's order.
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Your idea may be naturally desirable, logical and by every matrix of human ingenuity beneficial but it is not what the Lord commanded - that is enough to shed it.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.