King Saul's Shame - Pastor Greg Jones

``I've learned it doesn't take much to repent either. Come on somebody. It's just as easy to repent as it is to sin. I wish I had more helping me today. Amen. That's what's going to get us to where we need to go with god. Is our repentance. We gotta clear that air air between us and god. We gotta we gotta we gotta take care of some matters in our life. Amen. I I want to tell you, you don't have to live in shame. [00:07:42] (30 seconds)  #RepentNow

When he sinned, he went to god, not Samuel. Right. He didn't go to Nathan, the prophet and say, you know, you gotta take care of my sin. No, no. He didn't. He went straight to god and he said, god, forgive me. Amen. I'm telling us right now, we've gotta have a heart that that chases after god like David did. We gotta have a heart that cares what god thinks about us. We gotta have a heart that desires the ways of god and the things of god. Amen. We we gotta chase after that. [00:21:43] (37 seconds)  #ChaseAfterGod

The Bible declares to us from the mouth of Jesus in John chapter 10 that the only thing the devil wants to do is to steal, kill, and destroy your life. He would love to steal your joy today. He would love to steal your salvation today. He would love to he would love to kill your spirit and kill your desire to live for god. He would love to destroy everything about you. He would love destroy not only you but he'd love to destroy your family, your kids. [00:05:13] (40 seconds)  #GuardYourJoy

Samuel told him, said, I'm not going to I'm not going to pardon this sin because god has rejected you and given your kingdom to another. And you know what? You know what? Saul had the gall to do. He grabbed a hold of Samuel's robe and it tore as Samuel turned away and he said, just go worship with me in front of the people. Because I care what the people think. My pride is greater than obeying god. Amen. [00:20:21] (43 seconds)  #PrideOverObedience

I believe I I believe this is actually first Samuel 28 somewhere in there. I didn't put it in my notes but his life got worse. We we we know the story about how he had an evil spirit, the Bible says and David would come in and play music for him and and to soothe his soul, to soothe his mind, his his heart. But instead of repenting, there was always chances to repent. I'm telling everybody in this house, there's a chance right now. Right now. Yes. There's always those chances to repent. Amen. [00:22:30] (42 seconds)  #NeverTooLateToRepent

Imma tell us, we affect people around us. I've watched it over and over. I I've watched, I've watched pastors fall and destroy a church. I've seen it happen. I I I've seen I've seen men destroy their families because they couldn't keep themselves true. Seen it happen. I I've seen women destroy families because because of what they allow themselves to be a part of and and and and not stay true to the things. We affect people. Everything we do affects somebody. [00:26:54] (35 seconds)  #ActionsAffectOthers

If if I stay true to the things of god and the ways of god, there is no shame in what I'm doing. Amen. I don't care what your family says about you. Amen. When you're living for god, you don't have anything to be ashamed of. There is therefore no Shame doesn't have place in our lives. Has no place in our lives. Just obey god Just obey god. [00:27:34] (63 seconds)  #LiveWithoutShame

But it didn't just destroy him. Here's here's the issue with this. I'm going somewhere. So, just just hang on. It didn't just destroy Saul. It destroyed his family. His three sons, it destroyed them. Amen. And they were shamed. Not only him but his sons were shamed by being nailed to a wall in their death. The shame the shame Amen. [00:26:15] (39 seconds)  #ShameDestroysFamilies