Learning From Failures

In this sermon we soberly look at a story of two men.
Men who towered over their generations.
Men who held the highest offices to be had on earth.
Yet from their privileged position one is elevated to heavenly proportions and the other slips hellishly down.

Yes, King Saul and King David are a striking contrast in so many ways.

GOD PICKED DAVID:
2 Samuel 7:8
PEOPLE PICKED SAUL:
1 Samuel 10:23-24
DAVID FOLLOWED GOD'S PRAISES:
Acts 13:22
SAUL FOLLOWED PEOPLES PRAISES
1 Samuel 18:6-8
DAVID'S KINGDOM WAS immortalized THROUGH CHRIST:
2 Samuel 7:29
SAUL'S KINGDOM WAS DEMONIZED AT HIS OWN HANDS:
1 Samuel 15:23
DAVID WAS KIND AND GIVING:
1 Chronicles 19:2
SAUL WAS CRUEL AND SELFISH:
1 Samuel 20:30-34
DAVID WAS FORGIVING:
1 Samuel 26:24
SAUL WAS BITTER:
1 Samuel 18:9
DAVID ACCUSED HIMSELF:
2 Samuel 12:13
SAUL EXCUSED HIMSELF:
1 Samuel 15:21
DAVID WAS FULL OF BOLDNESS:
1 Chronicles 18:1-2
SAUL WAS FULL OF FEAR:
1 Samuel 17:11
DAVID WAS AT PEACE WITH GOD:
Psalm 4:8
SAUL WAS AT WAR WITH GOD:
1 Samuel 16:14