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<div class="SSN_title">"PLAYING THE FOOL"</div>
<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Autobiography in six words; he sums up his life story. The occasion - man knows the truth about himself.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE MAN WHO SPOKE.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Came from good family.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Kish his father a Benjamite "a mighty man of victory."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Secure in love of home. "Father cease worrying."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Man of splendid physique.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Man of simple life on farm.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. Man of modest disposition.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">E. Man of courage.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. When Nahash invaded Jabesh Gilead.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT CAME TO HIM.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. He was called to be king.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. These were the people of Jehovah.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Living in a theocratic form of Government. Clamoring for mono-cratic.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Opportunity to teach people that God still ruled.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. God promised to turn him into another man by the anointing of the Spirit.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. He was surrounded by a "band of men whose hearts God had touched."</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. HOW DID HE PLAY THE FOOL?</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Hiding on day of presentation.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Pride.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Jonathan smote the Philistines great slaughter and Saul blew the trumpet in Israel.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Intrudes into priests office - Gilgal.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. Makes rash oath.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">E. Hatred of David.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">F. Sneaking out in night to seek help from witch. These are but symptoms and manifestations of the true folly which lay deeper.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. THE TRUE FOLLY OF THE MAN.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Failed to submit his life to the authority of God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Thou hast done foolishly; thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord the God."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "Rebellion is as sin of witchcraft...because you have rejected the Word of the Lord..."</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">V. LESSONS TO LEARN.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Advantages do not insure success.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Opportunities do not crown a man.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. One thing is necessary:</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. I must submit my life to God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. The man who begins his life by submitting to the authority of God will never end his life by saying, "I have played the fool."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. A man plays the fool when:</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. He seeks to hide when God has called.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. He neglects his Christian friends.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. He intrudes into tasks uncalled.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. He disobeys God in the smallest matters.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">5. He attempts to justify the wrong he has done. "He who seeks to cover his sin..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">6. He allows some hatred to master him.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">E. Have you been playing the fool? If your life is not totally submitted to God, that's folly.</div>
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