IRRECOVERABLE FAILURE

Saturday, 17TH JUNE, 2023.

TOPIC:  IRRECOVERABLE FAILURE

MEMORIZE: “…Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.” 1 Samuel 15:23.

SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Samuel 15:19-23.

“"Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the LORD?" 20 And Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 "But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal." 22 Then Samuel said: "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He also has rejected you from being king."”

EXPOSITION:

Son is failure to meet the standard of God's righteousness. All men born of women are all sinners and come short of the glory of God. David was a man of many mistakes, but he do repent from them from time to time and would not return into it again. His knowledge of God helped him always to repent at the right time. 

But there is a failure called irreparable, too late to correct (amend). When men have gone too far to repent or when God’s patience over a man is exhausted and God declared such a man rejected. 

King Asa was a man who knew and served God of Israel with faithfulness all through his life and God was faithful to him too in defending him from the enemies. But towards the end of his life, his love and dedication for God diminished. He spent the last two years of his life being detached from God, his strength. God gave him the opportunity to make his way right before it is too late, so that He can heal him, but he refused. It is written: “And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign” 1 Chronicles 16:12-13.

King Saul was another example of irrecoverable failure. King Saul became disobedient unto the leading of God and God rejects him from reigning over his people. “And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever. But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.” 1 Samuel 13:13-14. 

In 1 Samuel 15:23, Samuel also says, “…Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.” 1 Samuel 15:23. Since he rejected the Lord, therefore God has rejected him, despised and cast him off from being king over His people. Samuel was saying, He that made thee king has determined to unmake thee again." Irreparable failure makes a man a perpetual failure and unusable for God. 

Examine yourself today, what are you doing? When God rejected Saul, he raised a substitute to replace him, David, a man after His heart. Have you not been replaced in the kingdom service? If you are still alive with Him, then, hear this, “Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.” 1 Cor. 19:12. But if you sense you are no more relevant in the hand of God like before, it is dangerous. Come back to God and plead for His mercy for restoration before it is too late. Cry unto Him even with tears, until He shows you mercy.

 

KEY POINT:  Those who are not willing that God should rule over them are unfit and unworthy to rule over men.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Psalms 80-83.

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