Title: Blind Anger (1 of 5)
Series: Blind Spots
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: I Samuel 20:25-34
On July 4th, 1826 two of our nation's Founding Fathers died (that same day) within hours of each other. John Adams & Thomas Jefferson (the 2nd and 3rd Presidents of the U. States) both died on July 4th.
What makes this interesting is that Adams and Jefferson were close friends. In 1775 they met at the Continental Congress and later collaborated on the Declaration of Independence. They were so close that, after Jefferson's wife died in 1782, John and Abigail Adams regularly had Jefferson to their home.
Though they differed politically, they remained close friends until Adams ran for a 2nd term as President... and Jefferson ran against him. Then things got nasty real quick.
Jefferson won (pause) but the campaign was so filled with insults and personal attacks that they both became angry with each other, and Adams was so bitter he left town before the inauguration ceremony. From that point on the two became bitter rivals who refused to speak to each other for the next 12 years. Both of them felt justified in their hatred of the other... (pause).
But then, a few years later, one of Jefferson's neighbors visited Adams in Massachusetts and reported that Adams' said: "I always loved Jefferson, and still love him." When Jefferson heard this, he wrote: "this is enough for me. I only needed this knolege to revive towards him all the affections of the most cordial moments of our lives." And they began to write to each other. And when they died, they died as close friends again.
(https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/john-adams and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-aeo8Ml4R4 - at the 36 minute time mark)
Anger destroys stuff.
It destroys friendships, marriages, families, and even entire nations.
And that's what happened in the life of the 1st of King Israel- King Saul.
Saul was a man whose ANGER destroyed his family and ... ul ...
Series: Blind Spots
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: I Samuel 20:25-34
On July 4th, 1826 two of our nation's Founding Fathers died (that same day) within hours of each other. John Adams & Thomas Jefferson (the 2nd and 3rd Presidents of the U. States) both died on July 4th.
What makes this interesting is that Adams and Jefferson were close friends. In 1775 they met at the Continental Congress and later collaborated on the Declaration of Independence. They were so close that, after Jefferson's wife died in 1782, John and Abigail Adams regularly had Jefferson to their home.
Though they differed politically, they remained close friends until Adams ran for a 2nd term as President... and Jefferson ran against him. Then things got nasty real quick.
Jefferson won (pause) but the campaign was so filled with insults and personal attacks that they both became angry with each other, and Adams was so bitter he left town before the inauguration ceremony. From that point on the two became bitter rivals who refused to speak to each other for the next 12 years. Both of them felt justified in their hatred of the other... (pause).
But then, a few years later, one of Jefferson's neighbors visited Adams in Massachusetts and reported that Adams' said: "I always loved Jefferson, and still love him." When Jefferson heard this, he wrote: "this is enough for me. I only needed this knolege to revive towards him all the affections of the most cordial moments of our lives." And they began to write to each other. And when they died, they died as close friends again.
(https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/john-adams and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-aeo8Ml4R4 - at the 36 minute time mark)
Anger destroys stuff.
It destroys friendships, marriages, families, and even entire nations.
And that's what happened in the life of the 1st of King Israel- King Saul.
Saul was a man whose ANGER destroyed his family and ... ul ...
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