Obedience Trumps Sacrifice

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