This sermon was preached at Key Worship Center, Baltimore, Maryland, by Pastor Gary Rice, on August 1, 1999. This verse is second part of a transition that was taking place in the leadership of Israel. But I want to take a look this morning at the presence of God, and specifically how it departed from Saul. There are many sad things in the Bible. The saddest would be the loss of someone to eternity without a Savior b.
Some men die before their time d.
Some people are born into homes of disadvantage and work much harder in this life just to experience the bare necessities that living demands f. But today, I want to talk about one of the saddest things in the Bible that can affect any Christian, and that is the failure to recognize the presence of God. B. God's presence could leave some people and they wouldn't even know it. Notice how it was his servants who pointed out to him that he no longer walked in the presence of the Spirit of the Lord. You may not be the first person to recognize that God's spirit had departed from you.