Willie Robertson

memetic desire it's like a it's a it's an idea that we mimic what we desire is is we're mimicking it so when you see like like y'all got little kids you could take your kids and put them in a room and one of them's playing with a toy and they get sick of playing with it they're i don't want to play this anymore they throw it on the ground but as soon as one of the other kids picks it up what is what does that one kid do he threw it on the ground

They want it back.

And then they start fighting over it.

So I think there's something like going on here with Saul.

He's looking at, you know, what he had and he knows he's going to lose it.

And all of a sudden it creates this really incredible paranoia in him that he starts to start to do some really radical stuff to try to get David out of the way.

But as we're going to find out, you can't really thwart the will of God.

Well, there was that unauthorized sacrifice that he made.

That was really his kind of first real significant act of disobedience that he was impatient about.

on waiting on Samuel.

And so he goes in and he circumvents the whole system.

And he's like, I'm just going to do this myself.

And I'm going to assume this role.

And one of the points that Dr. Jackson brought out that I thought was very key to really our life too, is that

What God seeks is obedience over sacrifice, and that's what he was missing, the obedience part.

And so he was looking at the end of it, thinking, I just got to get the sacrifice in.

But he was missing the big point, which is the obedience.

And you know what it made me think of was later on, David, after he commits a sin with Bathsheba, one of the things that he says in Psalm 51 is that sacrifices and burnt offerings, you weren't pleased with that.

Otherwise, I would have given you that.

But a broken spirit and a contrite heart, oh, God, you will not despise.