OBEDIENCE IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE

“Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.” 1 Samuel 15:22. SAUL had been commanded to slay utterly all the Amalekites and their cattle. Instead of doing so, he preserved the king, and suffered his people to take the best of the oxen and of the sheep. When called to account for this, he declared that he did it with a view of offering sacrifice to God; but Samuel met him at once with the assurance that such sacrifices were no excuse for an act of direct rebellion. “To obey,” even in the slightest and smallest thing, “is better than sacrifice,’* and to hearken diligently to the Lord’s commands is better than the fat of rams. It may be that some of you, though you are professed Christians, are living in the prosecution of some evil trade, and your conscience has often said, “Get out of it.” You are not in the position that a Christian ought to be in; but then you hope that you will be able to make a little money, and you will retire and do a world of good with it. Ah! God cares nothing for this rams’ fat of yours; he asks not for these sacrifices which you intend to make.
Is there anything that you are neglecting? Is there any sin in which you are indulging? Is there any voice of conscience to which you have turned a deaf ear? Is there one passage of Scripture which you dare not look in the face, because you are living in neglect of it? Then let Samuel’s voice come to you, and set you seeking for more grace; for “to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.”

EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE WHO OBEYED
1. Joseph: "An angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph and said, "Hero's with be looking for the child in order to kill him. So get up, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt and stay there until I tell you to live. Joseph got up, took the child and his mother and left during the night in Egypt.
2. Abraham: " The Lord said to Abraham " Leave your country, your relatives and your father's home, and go to the land that I am going to show you.
3. Noah : Noah did everything that God commanded.

EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE WHO DISOBEYED GOD GOD
1. Samson: Due to his disobedience he died with his enemies.
2. Pharaoh: Due to his disobedience he dies with his chariots in the Red Sea.
3. Lot's Wife: She turned to a pillar of salt.
4. Annaiah and Sapphira: They died due to disobedience.

Will you obey God or continue to argue with him