We all face many pressures in life. These pressures should drive us to our knees in prayer, not to worldly solutions or schemes of our own devising. We have to accept that the only way to live a blessed life is to follow the Lord without reservation or second guessing. (UGP)

Saul’s Disobedience Under Pressure
Saul’s Disobedient Sacrifice
1 Samuel 13: 5-14
1Sa 13:5 And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.
1Sa 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,
1Sa 13:7 and some Hebrews crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
Saul's Unlawful Sacrifice
1Sa 13:8 He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.
1Sa 13:9 So Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering.
1Sa 13:10 As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him.
1Sa 13:11 Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,
1Sa 13:12 I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD.’ So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.”
1Sa 13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.
1Sa 13:14 But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.”




1. Where had Saul gone from Michmash?
2. The people have already forgotten the victory over the ______________.
3. Where did they run and hide from the Philistines?
4. Who told Saul to wait 7 days?
5. What terrible thing did Saul do, spoken of in verse 9?
6. Why did Saul do this?
7. What has this moment of foolishness cost Saul??

1 Kings 8:62-64
2 Samuel 24:25


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