229) God and Samuel / Samuel and God
chap 28
- Time has come for the philistines and the Israelites to fight!
- Saul is afraid because God never answers him!
- So he asks his servants for a medium!
- Then Saul disguises himself and goes to see her!
- He wants to speak to Samuel!
- Then the woman realizes he is Saul, the one who put to death mediums according to God’s will!
- She thinks he wants to kill her!
- But Saul tells her not to be afraid!
- As a matter of fact, Saul keeps walking against God!
- First, he offers a sacrifice without waiting for Samuel!
- Second, he saves a king and possessions he was supposed to destroy!
- And he is rejected by God!
- Then Samuel never enters in contact with him till his death!
- Then he goes to see a medium whereas he shouldn’t do it because it is against God’s will!
- And he wants to speak to Samuel after his death whereas Samuel never did it when he was rejected by God!
- So of course, He can speak with a spirit but it can’t be Samuel!
- A spirit who is like Samuel!
- And this spirit tells him that he will die and lose the battle and David will get his kingdom!
- And in fact the medium speaks of the spirit as one like a god coming up out of the earth!
- What a lesson!
- Saul opposes God and he thinks he will escape!
- It is ridiculous!
- May we remember this lesson!
- We must look for God’s word and not man’s tradition!
- We must look for God’s will, not man’s will!
- Otherwise we will pay the price!
- But apparently the majority doesn’t care!
- They do like Saul and will get his fate!
- We should listen to Samuel who was faithful to God from the beginning to the end of his life!
- There is no secret, it is simple!
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