PROCLAMATION
“Saul’s anger flared up
at Jonathan and he said to him, ‘… Don’t I know that you have sided with the
son of Jesse to your own shame and the shame of the mother who bore you?’” 1 Samuel 20:30 (NIV)
EXPLANATION
The Spirit of The Lord God
had left King Saul and had been replaced by an evil spirit. (1 Samuel 16:14 and 18:12) Saul had initially loved David and took him
into his home, but the more that he saw that The Spirit of The Lord God was
with David, the more he feared him and wanted to kill him. (1 Samuel 18:29,
19:1, and 19:15) Saul even got very
angry with his son Jonathan for befriending David. Saul was so angry that he threw a spear at
Jonathan, attempting to kill him, when he questioned why Saul wanted to kill
David. (1 Samuel 20:32-33)
APPLICATION
There are some people in
this world who do not like The Lord God or the people of God. They will even dislike or hate you for being
friends with or being kind to believers. It is good for us to be kind and good to the
people of God. The Bible records that
Rahab, the prostitute, was spared along with her family because of how she
treated God’s people. (Joshua 6:17) People
will be blessed for being nice to a man of God or just giving a child of God a
drink of water. (Matthew 10:41-42) The world
will know that we are believers by the way that we show love to one another.
(John 13:35) We should not let anger or
hatred rule our behavior.
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