Read the passage: 1 Samuel 28
v.15 1. Refusing to obey God will always gain the accompaniment of great distress.
(And Samuel said to Saul Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up?
And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war
against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more,
neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou
mayest make known unto me what I shall do.)
v.15 2. Refusing to fellowship with God may lead to God’s denial of opportunity for
fellowship.
(…God is departed from me …)
v.16 3. Refusing to accept God’s solutions but constantly seeking for one you like
better can only gain God’s rejection.
(Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the Lord is
departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?)
v.16 4. Refusing to cooperate with God may cause one to be construed as God’s
enemy.
(…and is become thine enemy?)
either for or against Unbelievers are God’s enemy.
v.17 5. Refusing to accept God’s wisdom and will can only bring destruction.
(And the Lord hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the Lord hath rent
the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbor, even to David.)
v.17,6. Refusing to give up what God has taken or is taking away will lead to an
19 even greater loss.
(Moreover the Lord will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the
Philistines: and tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the Lord also
shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.)
v.19 7. Refusing to allow problems to be cured according to God’s master design
results in God, as the master designer, curing them Himself.
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