{"id":47127,"date":"2022-10-01T02:43:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-measurement-of-true-success-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:43:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:43:41","slug":"the-measurement-of-true-success-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-measurement-of-true-success-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Measurement Of True Success &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before Saul was anointed king, he humbly saw himself as a member of an insignificant family in the smallest tribe of Israel (1 Samuel 9:21). However, within a few years, he had erected a monument in his own honor and had become the supreme authority for his actions, instead of following Gods explicit instructions (1 Samuel 15:11-12; cf. 1 Samuel 15:1-3).<\/p>\n<p>The prophet Samuel confronted Saul for his disobedience to God by reminding him:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the Lord anoint you king over Israel?<\/strong> <em>(1 Samuel 15:17).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Brethren and friends, self-importance is the first step down the slippery slope of what the world calls success. It begins when we claim credit for God-given victories and modify His commands to suit our own selfish desires as Saul obviously did (1 Samuel 15:16-23).<\/p>\n<p>True success is measured by <strong>(1)<\/strong> remaining on Gods path; <strong>(2)<\/strong> following and obeying His Word; and <strong>(3)<\/strong> giving Him all honor, glory, and praise (Proverbs 3:5-10).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lets think about it!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before Saul was anointed king, he humbly saw himself as a member of an insignificant family in the smallest tribe of Israel (1 Samuel 9:21). However, within a few years, he had erected a monument in his own honor and had become the supreme authority for his actions, instead of following Gods explicit instructions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-measurement-of-true-success-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Measurement Of True Success &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}