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4/24/22 | 1 Samuel 15:4-23 | It is Better to obey than Sacrifice | JSBC | Jim Mudge |
Scripture Reading
1 Samuel 15:4-23
“It Is Better to Obey than to Sacrifice”
1. The formula for success.
1 Corinthians 4:1-5
Paul looks for the coming of the Lord and the time when the Lord himself will give each person a commendation for the things that they have done whether they were good and evil.
2. The Lord rewards each one according to their deeds.
1 Corinthians 3:10-15
If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
3. Saul’s success over the enemies of Israel.
1 Samuel 14:47-52
When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned he routed them.
4. The testing of Saul
1 Samuel 15:1-3
‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. 3Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
5. The sin of the Amalekites
Deuteronomy 25:17-19
“Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.
Exodus 17:8-16
6. Saul’s campaign to attack the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 14:4-31
But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.
1 Samuel 15:22-23
“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry.
7. Living in the kingdom of God.
Matthew 7:21-23
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:24-27
Build your house on the rock.
8. Saul is again told that he has been rejected as king.
1 Samuel 14: 23-31
I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.
9. If anyone does sin
1 John 2:1-6
But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
Conclusions:
1. In the kingdom of God, God rules over the hearts of his people.
2. We are under grace and we have an eternal sacrifice for our sins. Jesus Christ the Righteous.
Conclusions:
3. If we sin we can confess our sins and he is just and faithful to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
4. If we know him let us strive to always be obedient to his teaching and commandments.