Decisions?

1 Samuel 13

Saul got off to a start; (chapters 11-12) then he became a of himself.

There are life that reveal Saul’s story.

1^st 10:1

You must recognize a when it comes.

The overarching question is – will he or fault to ?

Notice: The enemy of shows up.

Now he waited for seven days, until the appointed time that Samuel had set, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattering from him. So Saul said, “Bring me the burnt offering and the peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering.  1 Samuel 13:8-9

Remember why the people wanted a king!

1. Samuel was .
2. His sons didn’t follow the .
3. To lead into like all the other nations.

While waiting at Gilgal things got and the troops .

The Philistines:

• them (seasoned)
• They had weapons.
• They had .

Seven days of waiting seemed like .

Saul felt sure he had to do . (v. 8-9)

You really can’t a , but:

• There is a difference between a king and a .
• There is a difference between my and God’s .
• There is a difference between self and God.
• There is a difference between our and God’s .
• There is a difference between our and God’s .

The truth is – Saul’s faltered.

But Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly! You have not kept the commandment of the

Lord your God, which He commanded you, for the Lord would now have established

your kingdom over Israel forever.  1 Samuel 13:13

  is rarely easy, but it is .

Truth: God always cares more about our than our .

Truth: is a must to “” with God.

Truth: and go together.

Truth: It is wrong to take more seriously than you take .

Truth: It is easy to become .

Truth: and do not pay off in the .

Truth: God’s tests are to create trust in the things first.

 “The one who is faithful in a very little thing is also faithful in much; and the one who is

unrighteous in a very little thing is also unrighteous in much.”  Luke 16:10

Evangelist Billy Sunday defined an as: “the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.”

Benjamin Franklin said: “I never knew a person who was good at making excuses who was good at else.”

Adam made the first excuse for (Gen. 3:12), and many have followed his .