He said to King Saul, he said to Saul here, before he’s king, he says, ‘ and you shall go down before me to Gilgal and behold, I will come down to you to offer burn offerings and sacrifice peace offerings. He’s the one who hears from God and passes on the word to the king and to the people of Israel. Well, what happened back over in the 10 th chapter and the 8th verse, the prophet Samuel… remember now, the prophet is the ultimate spiritual leader of the whole nation of Israel. They’ve heard about it, and now they’re arming for war, and they’re far outnumbering the nation of Israel. The nation of Israel has been under great distress because of the Philistines, and so Jonathan, King Saul’s son, has just wiped out a garrison of the Philistines. So let me give you a little idea of what’s happening before we come to the verse. Or it has happened to me, because of my impatience.ĪLSO READ: Billy Graham Sermon: Is the Handwriting on the Wall, America? (Transcript) That one of these two is going to grab every single one of us and make us stop to think. Now I want you to turn, if you will to the 13th chapter of 1 Samuel, because I want us to look at the Consequences of Impatience in the lives of two men. The truth is not a joke in matter, because it affects every single area of our life. Well, you know, I’m not impatient, or I am patient. And oftentimes we sort of joke about patience. So this is a part of a series, The Power of Patience. Well, we could talk about insignificant things, but in this message I want us to talk about those very significant times, those forks in the road, when you and I come to that place in life, and we want to move, we don’t have God’s yes about it, and we move anyway. So the issue is What Happens When We Become Impatient, And How Do We Feel? And how do we feel when other people become impatient with us? Then you take some other action, probably. Or you’ve said to your children: ‘in the bed by 09:00 I mean it!’ And what happens is you walk in there three times, they’re still in the bed frolicking and having a good time, totally ignored you. Or you’re having lunch and 25 minutes have gone by and they still haven’t shown up.
You know exactly where you laid them down, but somehow they’re not there. For example, you’re in a hurry and you can’t find your car keys anywhere. Well, probably all of us become impatient about some things in life, and probably most of them are rather insignificant. Well, how do you suppose other people feel when you and I become very, very impatient with them?
When you observe someone being very, very impatient, how does it make you feel? Charles Stanley – Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church, Atlanta Charles Stanley’s sermon titled: ‘The Consequences of Impatience’.ĭr.
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