"Yet turn not aside" "Turn ye not aside" 1 Samuel 12:20-21
Israel had been given the King they asked for. Samuel shows them their wickedness in asking a King when the Lord was their King. They confess their sin. He then tells them to fear not, and points them to following and serving the Lord with all their heart. However he twice warns them not to turn aside from this. We too need a clear aim and then not be turned away from it. How easy it is to be distracted, sidetracked to vain things.
We give 3 examples of not being side tracked from the word, then 4 lessons from the immediate context, then look at the following 2 points.
1/ What Israel WAS to do - Follow and serve the Lord will all their heart. 2/ What they were NOT to do, and why. - Turn aside - Because they would go after vain things which cannot profit or deliver
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Pastor Rowland Wheatley was called to the Gospel Ministry in Melbourne, Australia in 1993. He returned to his native England and has been Pastor of The Strict Baptist Chapel, St David’s Bridge Cranbrook, England since 1998.
He and his wife Hilary are blessed with two children,...