We Must Obey!

When Saul went to battle against the Amalekites, God told him to destroy everything and leave nothing. They were marked for destruction when they attack Israel in the wilderness after leaving Egypt.
Deuteronomy; 25:17-19
("Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, how he met you on the way and attack your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God. Therefore it shall be, when the Lord your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.)

Samuel had went to Saul and had told him what God had said.
1Samuel; 15:2-3
(Thus says the Lord of hosts: 'I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all the they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.' ")
God's judgment is severe on those who destroy His people as well as on those who disobey. God had given orders to Saul and this is what Saul did in the battle.

1Samuel; 15:7-9
(And Saul attacked the Amalekites, from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is east of Egypt. He also took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.)
Saul and the people had out right disobeyed the orders from God. They coveted the best of the Amalekites and had spared them.

When Samuel had meet Saul and had found out what he had done, he told Saul that he had disobey God.
1Samuel; 15:17-19
(So Samuel said, "When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the Lord anoint you king over Israel? Now the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.' Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?")

Saul told Samuel that he had brought the animals to sacrifice them to the Lord. But that is not what God had told him to do, and Samuel replied this way.
Samuel; 15:22-23
(So Samuel said: "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord. He has rejected you from being king.")
There were consequences for Saul's disobedience and God punished him.

If we continue to reject the calling of God for Salvation, one day God will reject us. One of our commands from God is to be obedient to His Word and walk in His ways.
John; 14:15
("If you love Me, keep My Commandments.)
1John; 5:3
(For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.)
Genuine faith produces obedience. This does not mean that we never fail, but that our goal will be to please God and obey Him. He commands us to believe in Jesus if we want to be saved.
John; 3:16
(For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.)
Let's make it our goal today to be obedient to God's commands.

God Bless You!