Getting the Cart Before the Horse

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Getting the Cart Before the Horse

• A Lesson From Saul

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First Things First

• Do not put the cart before the horse is an old
  proverb meaning to keep first things first
• This principle is found in the gospels
  (Mt. 524 Lk. 1428-31 Jn. 751 87)
• Saul was told to utterly destroy the Amalekites,
  but instead spared some for sacrifice
  (1 Sam. 1522-23 Hos. 66 Mk. 1233)

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The Cart Before the Horse

• Total Depravity sin before lust and lawlessness
  (Jas. 114 1 Jn. 34 517 Ezek. 18)
• Infant Baptism baptism before teaching
  (Mt. 2818 Jn. 644-45 Acts 188)
• Faith Only salvation before baptism
  (Mk. 1615-16 Acts 2216 Gal. 327 1 Pet.
  321)

4
The Cart Before the Horse

• Once Saved Always Saved eternal life before the
  judgment day (Mk. 1030 Gal. 54 2 Pet. 317)
• Fornication sexual intimacy before scriptural
  marriage (Gen. 224-25)
• Leadership responsibility before opportunity
  and ability (1 Tim. 310 2 Tim. 22)

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The Cart Before the Horse

• Religious Service the outward service before
  the inward purity (Mt. 71-5 2325-26)
• Reaping Before Sowing the reward before the
  work (Gal. 68-9 2 Tim. 26 Rev. 1413)