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The autonomic nerves system is that which is responsible for the bodies response to intense stress.
Fight or flight!
Prepares the body for stressful or emergency situations—fight or flight
Thus, the sympathetic division increases heart rate and the force of heart contractions and widens (dilates) the airways to make breathing easier.
It causes the body to release stored energy.
Muscular strength is increased.
This division also causes palms to sweat, pupils to dilate, and hair to stand on end.
It slows body processes that are less important in emergencies, such as digestion and urination.
I. Difficulty
1 sam 13
Extreme difficulty tempts us to turn from trusting to panicking.
Fear is an opportunity to turn to God or from Him.
Woodrow Kroll
The only known antidote to fear is faith.
When difficultits come - there are two options - Trusting or Panicing.
Unfortunately, this story reminds us that Sual doesn’t use this occasion to turn to God but from him.
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Disobedience
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When God doesn’t immediately fix our problems we are prone to take matters in our own hands.
1 sam
Waiting on the Lord is one of the most challenging spiritual disciplines.
Does God have you in a season of waiting?
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want.
Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
– John Ortberg
That is why scripture commands this
While you are waiting God is working.
What does waiting on the Lord Mean
It means obey what you know.
What is the problem in this text.
Some propos that it was primarily about worship - Saul offering sacrifices that shuld have been done by a prophet
The problem comes in the simple fact that Saul didn’t obey the word of Samuel.
Remember what Samuel said in 10:8
Saul’s sin was not that as king he was forbidden by God’s law to sacrifice burnt offerings and fellowship offerings under any and all circumstances.
Later David (2 Sam 24:25) and Solomon (1 Kings 3:15) made the same kinds of offerings, and there is no hint of divine rebuke in either case.
Saul sinned because he disobeyed God’s word through the prophet Samuel (v.13)—a sin that he would commit again (15:26).
When Saul rejected the word of the prophet he rejected the Word of God.
Church Lawless States,
The problem with most of us is not that we can’t figure out God’s will; it’s that we don’t obey Him in the things that are clear in the scriptures.
Christianity doesn’t require a crystal ball but an obedient heart.
Saul is in the crucible of testing
When we are in the crucible we begin to learn where our trust really lies.
When Saul rejected the word of the prophet he was rejecting the word of the Lord.
Disobedience leads to:
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Disaster
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1 sam 13 10-15
I know what your thinking.
What’s the dig deal?
It seems like the Bible makes such a fuss over the smallest of things.
Sin is always a big deal.
You know, John Wesley wrote little notes in his Bible, and on this passage, he wrote a note.
He asked a question —
“Is there such a thing as a little sin?”
That's a good question, isn't it?
Is there such a thing as a little sin?
Do you know what his answer was?
He wrote it in his Bible —
“Only if there is such a thing as a little God.”
You can’t receive the favor of God while rejecting the word of God.
Sometimes obedience to God seems like madness.
Because to obey God in those circumstances would have required him to trust God against every instinct, against every evidence, and against every aspect of his experience at that moment.
The Philistines were coming in massive numbers, the Israelites were slipping away, and everyone was terrified!
Disobedience might seem like wisdom but it is folly.
John Woodhouse stated,
We sympathize with Saul because we know all too well how difficult obedience to God can be.
We find Samuel’s judgment harsh because we are not always persuaded that obedience to God is the wisest course of action.
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