1 Samuel 13:16-23

Hey, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning, we are going to find out what happens to Saul, right? So King Saul has made a sacrifice, been foolish, didn't wait for Samuel. And so the Lord said he's not going to have victory and the kingdom is going to be taken from him. Doesn't happen immediately, but now starts the downfall.
Let's have some coffee. We'll pray. We'll get into God's word. It's hot. It is hot. Nope. Nope. It can't be hot and it can't be cold, huh? It has to be just right. Just right. Okay. Not too lumpy. Not too lumpy. Not too squishy. Not too hard. Not too squishy. But just right.
Okay, Goldilocks. You want to pray for us this morning? Sure. God, thank you for this day. Please help that we can learn stuff from this passage and please help that we would not be like Saul. Amen. I think sometimes we are more like Saul than we want to think. Yeah, but we can try not to. We'll see. All right. First Samuel chapter 13. Let's do 16 through 23. Okay. So 16. 16 through 23. You want to start?
Saul Jonathan, on his son, and the people present with them we remained in Gibeah of Benjamin. But the Philistines camped in Michmash. Then Raiders came out from of the camp of the Philistines and in three In three companies. One company turned into the road to Ofra. Ofra. To the land of Shul. Shul. Another company turned to the road of Beth Ha. And another company turned to the road of Bahadur. On the border. that overlooks the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. Good job.
Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, lest the Hebrews make swords or spears. But all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen each man's plowshare, his mattocks, his axe, and his sickle. And the charge for a sharpening was a pym for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks and the axes, and to set the points on the goads. So it came about on the day of battle that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan. But they were found with Saul and Jonathan, his son.
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash. We'll go ahead and stop there. It's a shorter passage, and we're going to find out the rest of it tomorrow, but what's the problem? A, what is this about? A, it's about they have no weapons. Why don't they have any weapons? Except axes. Because the Philistines were like, we're going to attack you by the blacksmiths. So they can't get it, only for a price. Well, there's no blacksmiths to be found, right? So whether they're killed or whether the Philistines are kind of like lords over them and haven't allowed them to have any blacksmithing, the point is they're not allowed.
You have to think in ancient times, you may have a sword just because you have a sword or you may have a spear just because you have a spear, but more likely you're going to bring farm implements. Like an axe or a sickle. axe, sickle, goad, right? Goad is like a really long pointy stick with uh with like a some type of piece of metal at the end of it that has a point so when the oxen are kind of like being lazy and not going you can Kind of poke him along like, hey, come on, keep going, keep going.
This is why when Jesus talks to Saul, a different Saul, on the road to Emmaus, he says, Saul, Saul, why are you kicking against the goads? Why are you persecuting me? It's hard to kick against the goads. Jesus was poking him along the whole time. So he was like an ox that had to be driven along.
So yeah, so they don't want them to have swords and spears and stuff like that. Or like if you have a pitchfork so you can toss the hay, you could use that to a person. The only thing that if it was today, the farmers have tractors in common. Yeah, I mean, if people were worried about combines tearing down walls, maybe they would take all the keys to the combines or, you know, remove their ignition switches or something.
And then the sickles, the sickles clutches. Yeah, right. So, you know how dangerous combine heads are, right, with the sickles on those. And if you get drug into a combine head, Also the bailer. Yeah, the bailer. There's lots of dangerous things on farm implements. If you don't have to walk in, they're fine. Yeah, but the point being, the Philistines know that all these farm tools can also be changed into tools for war.
So they won't let them. And so how does that sound for Saul and his son Jonathan and their band of men who've joined together? There's only like 600 of them. Not so good. Basically, they just all of a sudden have a knuckle fight. Well, but the Philistines have swords. Might be like a knuckle fight, but yeah, they have swords. So do you think that's going to turn out well? You might have a little bit of bloody knuckles. Oh, you might have a lot of death. Yeah. Yeah. So we're going to find out more as we keep reading. OK, but yeah, this is a this is not a good deal.
All right. Well, what do you think you would underline as the best verse to summarize in this section? I think I would underline Swords or spears. The land of Israel, but the Philistines, they have no swords or spears. They're just basically just useless without their swords. Okay, so you would underline verse 19 and 20?
Yeah. Yep, I would agree. Alright, so let's go ahead and talk about seek calling. Call to action. What are we supposed to do or how does it show us Jesus Christ? I think it shows us Jesus as he made the offering and Jesus is in control. How does that tie into here? Because he disobeyed God. Who disobeyed God? Saul. Oh, uh-huh. And now Jesus is teaching him a lesson from it. Oh, okay. Yeah, okay.
I can't see where you're going there. Yeah, you know, I think that there are times in which God allows hard things to happen that we may not like, but God is also, does judge. He is holy, and thank the Lord that we like to think of somebody like Saul, and we like to stand over him and judge him, like, oh, you dummy dummy, I can't believe you did this. But more often than not, my life proves I'm really not any better than Saul. Saul was just an ordinary man.
Yeah, and so are we. but Jesus took our sins. Yeah, but thank God Jesus takes our sins, yeah. All right, would you like me to pray to close this? Sure. Okay. God, we thank you so much that you have given us Jesus Christ, the perfect man who is like us in every way.
He was tempted And yet, even though He is fully man, He is also fully God. And so He never sinned, not like Saul, but a better King. And thank you for sending us your Son, who is still leading us now as our King. And thank you that we are not called to fight against flesh and blood, but against the rulers and principalities and the power of the air, that we are in a spiritual warfare. And so, Father, we pray that you would please help us to follow after you. In Jesus' name, Amen. Well, may the Lord God bless you. May you walk in the joy and peace of Jesus Christ, and we'll see you next time. Bye.