{"id":34910,"date":"2015-01-15T17:45:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T22:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?page_id=34910"},"modified":"2020-10-10T16:40:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T21:40:46","slug":"men-bible-sual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/men-bible-sual\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Of The Bible: Sual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Saul, Shaul<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/christian25_300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-25751 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/christian25_300x300-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"christian25_300x300\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/christian25_300x300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/christian25_300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/christian25_300x300-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>[S\u00f4ul] &#8211; asked for or demanded.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>1<\/strong><\/span>. The son of Kish, and first king of Israel <span style=\"color: #333399;\">(1 Sam. 9-11)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">A Man Who Lost His Kingdom<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nNo man among Bible men had so many chances thrust upon him to make a success of life, and no man ever so missed them. Saul not only missed great opportunities, he deliberately abused them. His sun rose in splendor, but set in a tragic night. The downgrade of his life is the old familiar story of pride, egotism and the abuse of power leading to moral degradation and ruin. Here are the steps down the ladder:<\/p>\n<p>He was a man anointed and filled with the Spirit. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">(1 Sam. 11:6)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In his early years he was humble and practiced self-control <span style=\"color: #333399;\">(1 Sam. 10:22; 10:27; 11:13)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Self-will restricted his influence <span style=\"color: #333399;\">(1 Sam. 13:12, 13)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>He became disobedient and was guilty of rash vows <span style=\"color: #333399;\">(1 Sam. 15:11-23)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Jealousy prompted him to hunt and harm David <span style=\"color: #333399;\">(1 Sam. 18:8; 19:1).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He patronized the superstition he had forbidden <span style=\"color: #333399;\">(1 Sam. 28:7)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Wounded in battle, he ended up a suicide <span style=\"color: #333399;\">(1 Sam. 31:4)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Having already destroyed his moral life, he ultimately destroyed his physical life. Saul&#8217;s sad story is repeated almost daily.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>2<\/strong><\/span>. The sixth of the ancient kings of Edom, from Rehoboth on the Euphrates <span style=\"color: #333399;\">(Gen. 36:37, 38)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">3<\/span><\/strong>. The original name of Paul, a native of Tarsus <span style=\"color: #333399;\">(Acts 7:58)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/biblegateway.christianbook.com\/all-the-men-of-bible\/herbert-lockyer\/9780310280811\/pd\/0280818?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-MOTB-_-20101008-Shallum-_-ad-BuyItNow&amp;cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_--_--_-Buy+it+now!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/image.exct.net\/lib\/fe621570756203757117\/m\/1\/allthemenofthebible.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Today&#8217;s Reading Is From:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All the Men of the Bible<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nby Herbert Lockyer<\/p>\n<p>A portrait gallery and reference library of over 3,000 named biblical characters. Characters you can learn from and teachings you can apply.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/biblegateway.christianbook.com\/all-the-men-of-bible\/herbert-lockyer\/9780310280811\/pd\/0280818?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-MOTB-_-20101008-Shallum-_-ad-BuyItNow&amp;cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_--_--_-Buy+it+now!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Buy it now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also these related resources:<\/p>\n<p>* <a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/biblegateway.christianbook.com\/all-the-women-of-bible\/herbert-lockyer\/9780310281511\/pd\/0281512?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-MOTB-_-20101008-Shallum-_-ad-WOTBText&amp;cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_--_--_-All+the+Women+of+the+Bible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">All the Women of the Bible by Herbert Lockyer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saul, Shaul [S\u00f4ul] &#8211; asked for or demanded. 1. The son of Kish, and first king of Israel (1 Sam. 9-11). A Man Who Lost His Kingdom No man among Bible men had so many chances thrust upon him to make a success of life, and no man ever so missed them. Saul not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":86231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-christian-news-videos-and-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}