Saul’s disobedience to God’s Word holds a key lesson for the gentile Christian church.
Specifically, what am I talking about?
I’m talking about the fundamental and foundational teaching that the ONLY ACCEPTABLE demonstration of our love for God is OBEDIENCE to Him.
That’s the ONLY acceptable way.
Yet this is at odds with the false and irrational doctrine promoted by the church that says obeying God’s Word is legalism…
Or that obedience to God’s commands is not only a thing of the past but something to be avoided.
Instead, they say the best way to demonstrate God’s love in this so-called New Testament dispensation is to vibe out warm fuzzies and affection towards the Lord and our fellow human beings.
Again, don’t take any action, mind you.
Because then you’ll be committing legalism.
What a load of silly crock.
This leads to another important lesson.
If your congregation’s leadership has a bad habit of creating false doctrines to serve some agenda, do you keep them accountable and check if what they say is true by examining the Bible?
Or do you just blindly believe them because they’re church leaders?
Do you say to yourself, “If they’re wrong, it’s their problem, not mine”?
My point is that Saul’s story teaches us that we can’t really separate ourselves from our leaders and what happens to us.
Sure, God helps and saves us on an individual basis…
But everything in the world is interconnected homie.
Even the most evil leaders, those who are despised by their own people, will in due time drag their country, and all of the citizens down to destruction with them.
Normally, people are scared to do something about it and just sit on their butts hoping something will change without them taking action.
Unfortunately, hope and being complacent ain’t a good strategy in this case.
You’ve got to stand up, speak out, and take vigorous action against ungodly rulers before they cause too much damage.
How else do you think a man like Hitler came into power and was able to accomplish his evil on a mass scale?
It’s because good people did nothing.
Remember that.
In the end, BOTH the leader and the people will answer to God for what they did or didn’t do.
Ya feeling me here?
It is such a schonda (shame) that the Christian leadership hasn’t learned one darn thing about mistakes we Jews made, which are clearly demonstrated throughout the Tanakh.
In fact, not only have they made the same mistakes regarding how to serve God and not to accept false teachings, but they have added to our errors and instead of just failing to worship God as he said to, they went even further and created an entirely new religion that is based more on rejecting what God said than obeying it!
Oy!
Yes, it is a shame or schonda…(hmm, a new word for me)!
Because that’s the purpose of the Scriptures, that we can learn from those who came before us.
Shalom.
Following in prayer.
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