OFFERING GOD THE CURSED THING

That which God has cursed does not become holy because we call it holy and offer it as worship.

God commanded Saul to UTTERLY DESTROY everything associated with Amalek; men, women, children, oxen, sheep, camels and donkeys.  But Saul decided that surely God didn’t mean the king of Amalek.  And look at the beautiful, fat livestock; why they could provide food for God’s Children and even sacrifice the best as WORSHIP to God.

Saul decided that which God had cursed, he would call holy and offer as worship…BUT GOD SAID NO! 

It didn’t turn out well for Saul; God rejected him as king over Israel and it was an Amalekite that contributed to his death.

We may call it “holy”; we may offer it in “worship”; but God will not accept the profane as worship; despite our best intentions.  It will not turn out well for us…REMEMBER SAUL…

1 Samuel 15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.

1 Samuel 15:20-22 And Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. ²¹ But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”

1 Samuel 15:26 But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”