1 Chronicles 10:13-14 KJV
So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;
And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
The Bible gives us many occasions to remember that the wages of sin is death. The Bible speaks here of only one transgression ( and then adds to it Saul's seeing the witch at Endor). It is not that Saul was guilty of horrible and terrible sins that piled up one after the other. His kingdom was in fact, taken from him very early on in his reign because he had not obeyed the Word of the Lord with the Amalekites.
When they buried Saul it was under the oak in Jabesh. The Jews custom was to bury one of their own under an oak, a symbol of their believe that, like the oak dies in winter but resurrects each spring, the one whose bones they have buried will one day spring back to life in God.
Even we who are believers sin. But our sins have been buried with Christ in His death. We still suffer physical death (a result of the sin condition of this world) but we look forward to a new and resurrected life in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. Though sin bears its mark on this flesh and takes its toll upon it, we will one day spring forth in newness of eternal life.
So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;
And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
The Bible gives us many occasions to remember that the wages of sin is death. The Bible speaks here of only one transgression ( and then adds to it Saul's seeing the witch at Endor). It is not that Saul was guilty of horrible and terrible sins that piled up one after the other. His kingdom was in fact, taken from him very early on in his reign because he had not obeyed the Word of the Lord with the Amalekites.
When they buried Saul it was under the oak in Jabesh. The Jews custom was to bury one of their own under an oak, a symbol of their believe that, like the oak dies in winter but resurrects each spring, the one whose bones they have buried will one day spring back to life in God.
Even we who are believers sin. But our sins have been buried with Christ in His death. We still suffer physical death (a result of the sin condition of this world) but we look forward to a new and resurrected life in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. Though sin bears its mark on this flesh and takes its toll upon it, we will one day spring forth in newness of eternal life.
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