Homiletic Review 1 Samuel 15:32 Then said Samuel, Bring you here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him delicately. And Agag said… I. WHY BITTER. Because — 1. It is accompanied with physical sufferings. 2. It is the end of earthly hopes and advantages. 3. It separates from friends. 4. There is within us a fear of the unknown realities beyond the grave. 5. In each heart there is a consciousness of sin. II. HOW THIS BITTERNESS MAY BE CHANGED TO SWEETNESS. Faith in Christ. 1. Makes physical sufferings trivial. 2. Assures us of hopes and advantages infinitely more important than those which perish through death. 3. Introduces us to the friendship of all heaven, and this for all eternity. 4. Makes to know that Christ, our Brother, and God, our Father, dominate all other realities in the world to come. 5. It clothes us with the righteousness of Christ. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? (Homiletic Review.) Parallel Verses KJV: Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. |
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