May I challenge you about how to NOT serve God? That is exactly what we see when we start in 1^st Samuel 15. This chapter captures why God picked David, and why God rejected Saul. If you ever want to be sure that you are on God's Team and stay there--be sure you understand this chapter. This is one of the saddest chapters in the Bible-First Samuel 15.  

What to Avoid in Life:

Ways to Fail & Waste Your Life

1. Ignore clear and direct statements about what God wants you to do. 1 Samuel 15:1-7

What are some real clear and direct statements from God about what He wants us to do?

• Mark 16:15 And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." (NKJV)
• John 15:12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. NKJV
• Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (NKJV) 

2. Pick and choose from what God clearly tells you to do so that you offer God selective and partial obedience. 1 Samuel 15:8

Remember that the clearest way to declare that you love the Lord is by obedience.

• John 14:21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him." (NKJV) 

3. Hold on to the best and nicest parts of what God hates and has asked for you to destroy, and keep them for your own use. 1 Samuel 15:9a

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