{"id":2761,"date":"2024-03-24T11:14:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2024-03-24T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T16:14:16","slug":"1-samuel-15-saul-and-the-final-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2761","title":{"rendered":"1 Samuel 15 Saul and the Final Straw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/32424-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-4e1850bc-5a61-49cc-9a3f-0c24f5852b80\" href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/32424-2.mp3\">1 Samuel 15 &#8211; Saul and the Final Straw<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/32424-2.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-4e1850bc-5a61-49cc-9a3f-0c24f5852b80\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Samuel 15:1-3<br>Deuteronomy 25:17-19 NIV<br>1 Samuel 15:4-23<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God is looking for obedient hearts, otherwise the sacrifice we make doesn\u2019t mean anything.<br>1 Samuel 15:23 <br>Saul has now been personally disqualified as king.<br>1 Samuel 15:24-31<br>Samuel chose to honor Saul&#8217;s position as king &#8211; not his ungodly conduct.<br>1 Samuel 15:32-16:13<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Question 1: If Saul knew that he was not \u201cthe one\u201d then why did he take the job?<br>Answer 1: For Saul, it was never about what God wanted; it was about what he wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Question 2: If God knew what was going to happen with Saul, why did he make Saul king in the first place?<br>Answer 2: Saul was the kind of king the people wanted, and God was giving them what they wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Samuel 15:10-11<br>1 Samuel 15:29<br>nacham (naw-kham&#8217;) means to be sorry, console oneself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Question 3: If Saul is disqualified as king, why does he continue to rule so long?<br>Answer 3: God is preparing His king, and He is preparing His people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Samuel 15:1-3Deuteronomy 25:17-19 NIV1 Samuel 15:4-23 God is looking for obedient hearts, otherwise the sacrifice we make doesn\u2019t mean anything.1 Samuel 15:23 Saul has now been personally disqualified as king.1 Samuel 15:24-31Samuel chose to honor Saul&#8217;s position as king &#8211; not his ungodly conduct.1 Samuel 15:32-16:13 Question 1: If Saul knew that he was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2761\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1 Samuel 15 Saul and the Final Straw<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-12-samuel","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}