1. To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice, And To Hearken Than The Fat Of Rams.
(I Samuel 15:22)

2. “Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.” (I Samuel 15:3)
To the Kenites: “Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them…” (I Samuel 15:6)
The Command To Obey

3. The best is spared – to sacrifice in Gilgal ( Samuel 15:15, 21)
“But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep and oxen, and that which was good, and would not utterly destroy them… (I Samuel 15:9)
Disobedience
The best is spared – to sacrifice in Gilgal ( Samuel 15:15, 21)

4. To Obey Is better than Sacrifice”
God wants our thanksgiving and paying our vows (Psm 50:13-14)
God wants Our contrite heart (Psm. 51:15-17,19)
To Obey Is better than Sacrifice”
Love God with all of our heart – love neighbor as self (Mk. 12:33)
God wants our mercy (Matt. 9:13, 12:7)

5. Partial obedience = Total disobedience (v.7-9, 20)
“Blessed Be thou of Jehovah: I have performed the commandment of Jehovah” (v.13)
Partial obedience = Total disobedience (v.7-9, 20)
Self-Deception
What meaneth then the bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear. (v.14)

6. “the people spared the best” (v.15)
Self-Justification
“The people took the spoil …the chief of the devoted things to sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God in Gilgal” (v.21)

7. “Saul came to Carmel…set up a monument.”
Misplaced Glory (v.12,17)

8. Misplaced Glory (v.12,17) Misplaced Fear (v. 24)
“Saul came to Carmel…set up a monument.”
Misplaced Glory (v.12,17)
“I have sinned…because I feared the people.”
Misplaced Fear (v. 24)

9. Disobedience= REBELLION (v. 23)
“…as sin of witchcraft – Saul puts own counsel before God’s command

10. Disobedience= REBELLION (v. 23) Disobedience= STUBBORNESS(v.23)
“…as sin of witchcraft – Saul puts own counsel before God’s command
Disobedience= STUBBORNESS(v.23)
“as idolatry” – Saul walked in own way, and not the way of God

11. “To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice”
Sacrifice: “ I acknowledge God and the Lord by living a good moral life… I do not need baptism.”
“To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice”
“And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 10:48)

12. Receive Him – Receive Him Not
2 JOHN 9-10: Matters Of Not Abiding In The Doctrine of Christ
ROMANS 14: Matters Indifferent With God
Homer Hailey’s Error on Divorce and Remarriage
Division occurs: when they are no longer reading the Scriptures and interpreting the Scriptures in the same way; and over generational changes in which over a period of time people no longer behave themselves in the same way” (Ed Harrell)

13. Command: “Receive Him Not…” (2 John 10)
Justifying self : Regarding printing article defending fellowship with Homer Hailey: Article sent to all the editors before printing – “no one objected to my doing it” (Ed Harrell)
Command: “Receive Him Not…” (2 John 10)

14. Command: “Receive Him Not…” (2 John 10)
Deceiving Self: Articles on fellowship - “how we have done fellowship” –– therefore, probably how “we ought to do fellowship” – “in the sense there is no other way.” (Interview of David Holder with Ed Harrell, other editors of Christianity Magazine)
Command: “Receive Him Not…” (2 John 10)

15. Command: “Receive Him Not…” (2 John 10)
Misplaced Glory: “…A lot more people kind of agree with my interpretation of Romans 14. ” (Ed Harrell)
Command: “Receive Him Not…” (2 John 10)

16. Command: “Receive Him Not…” (2 John 10)
Misplaced Glory: “…A lot more people kind of agree with my interpretation of Romans 14. ” (Ed Harrell)
Command: “Receive Him Not…” (2 John 10)
Misplaced Fear: If we do this, “we will splinter into many groups” – “be worshipping in a phone booth” (a number of preachers)

17. “To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice”
Fellowship
Receive Him – Receive Him Not Rom. 14, Jn. 9-11
“For there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.”
I Cor. 11:19