Obedience Trumps Sacrifice
Scripture Verses
1 Samuel 15:1-35
Outline
God wants complete obedience to His Word. Anything less than that produces grief in heaven and pain on earth.
1 Samuel 15:1-35
- Theme: Listen and Obey
- Why would God command this?
- Utterly destroy – 3, 8, 9, 15, 18, 20
- Exodus 17:8-16
- Deuteronomy 25:17-19
- Isaiah 35:4
- “cherem”
1 Samuel 15 / Genesis 6
- Sin caused the destruction of sinners
- Gave rise to Noah who had a heart for God
- Sin destroyed Saul’s kingship
- Gave rise to David, a man after God’s own heart
Saul
- Partial obedience is complete disobedience
- Rebellion is the same as witchcraft
- Arrogance is the same as idolatry
- Romans 12:1-2
- Worship that counts must result in obedience to the Word and will of God
Repentance
- God’s repentance
- Anthropomorphism – attributing human forms and conditions to God
- Anthropopathism – attributing human feelings to God
- Genesis 6:6
- A consistent and caring God
- Saul’s repentance
- Position over people over position over God
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