Although the church exists in today’s society, God requires the church not to be friends with the world, but the church can easily obey the world’s thoughts and run the church with secular concepts. Of course, the results can be seen in a short period of time, for example, the number of people who join the church increases, and the income of the church also skyrockets, but these are worthless to God, because when the church is linked to money, the word of God no longer has an effect. Such as although there are many people in the congregation, they quarrel endlessly. On the surface, their families seem to be peaceful, but in private they are turbulent and only maintain the harmony on the surface. These are the consequences of not obeying God’s commands.

1. Disciple Building Sharing
A200 Obedience is better than sacrifice,
What is the obedience and sacrifice of the
world, Why the Church Focuses on Sacrifice
What is God's obedience, God's sacrifice

2. Preface
• Although the church exists in today’s society, God requires
the church not to be friends with the world, but the church
can easily obey the world’s thoughts and run the church
with secular concepts. Of course, the results can be seen in
a short period of time, for example, the number of people
who join the church increases, and the income of the
church also skyrockets, but these are worthless to God,
because when the church is linked to money, the word of
God no longer has an effect. Such as although there are
many people in the congregation, they quarrel endlessly.
On the surface, their families seem to be peaceful, but in
private they are turbulent and only maintain the harmony
on the surface. These are the consequences of not obeying
God’s commands.

3. Outline
• Obedience is better than sacrifice,
• What is the obedience and sacrifice of the
world,
• Why the Church Focuses on Sacrifice
• What is God's obedience, God's sacrifice

4. What is the obedience and sacrifice of
the world,
• Matt. 6:24 “‘No one can serve two masters; for
either he will hate the one and love the other, or
else he will be loyal to the one and despise the
other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
• Proverbs 23:5 Cast but a glance at riches, and
they are gone, for they will surely sprout
wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
• 1Tim. 6:10 “For the love of money is a root of all
kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from
the faith in their greediness, and pierced
themselves through with many sorrows.”

5. What is the obedience and sacrifice of
the world,
• 1Tim. 6:17 “Command those who are rich in this
present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in
uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives
us richly all things to enjoy.”
• 1John. 2:15 “Do not love the world or the things
in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love
of the Father is not in him.”
• 1John. 2:16 “For all that is in the world--the lust
of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of
life--is not of the Father but is of the world.”

6. Why the Church Focuses on Sacrifice
• For things in the world, the first thing they value is
money, and the second is how to get it quickly, so
when the Bible preaches and obeys orders rather than
sacrifices, they think to obey is to: study the Bible, go
to Sunday school. When will we be able to increase the
congregation? But offering sacrifices is very useful,
because there can be some free labor, church service,
missionary work, people need to go outside to do this,
and people also need to go to the missionary field. So
the sacrifice is actually useful for the church, which can
not only increase the income of the church, but also
improve the reputation of the church.

7. What is God's obedience
• A199 listen, The importance of listening, the
level of listening Why can't you hear, how can
you hear God Consequences of not hearing God
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06/a199-listen-importance-of-listening.html
• 1 Samuel 15:2 2 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.

8. What is God's obedience
• 1 Samuel 15:3 3 Now go and attack Amalek, and
utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare
them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing
child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
• 1 Samuel 15:4 4 So Saul gathered the people together
and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand
foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah.
• 1 Samuel 15:7 7 And Saul attacked the Amalekites,
from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

9. What is God's obedience
• 1 Samuel 15:9 9 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.
• 1 Samuel 15:10 10 Now the word of the LORD came to Samuel,
saying,
• 1 Samuel 15:11 11 “I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king,
for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed
My commandments.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to
the LORD all night.
• 1 Samuel 15:13 13 Then Samuel went to Saul, and Saul said to him,
“Blessed are you of the LORD! I have performed the commandment
of the LORD.”

10. What is God's obedience
• 1 Samuel 15:14 14 But Samuel said, “What then is
this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the
lowing of the oxen which I hear?”
• 1 Samuel 15:15 15 And Saul said, “They have
brought them from the Amalekites; for the
people spared the best of the sheep and the
oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the
rest we have utterly destroyed.”
• 1 Samuel 15:19 19 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?”

11. What is God's obedience
• 1 Samuel 15:22 22 So Samuel said: “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 heed than
the fat of rams.
• 1 Samuel 15:23 23 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 also has rejected you from being
king.”

12. God's sacrifice
• Micah 6:7 7 Will the LORD be pleased with
thousands of rams, Ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, The
fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
• Micah 6:8 8 He has shown you, O man, what is
good; And what does the Lord require of you But
to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly
with your God?
• Job 41:11 11 Who has preceded Me, that I should
pay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

13. God's sacrifice
• Psalm 50:12 If I were hungry I would not tell
you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
• Rom. 11:36 “For of Him and through Him and to
Him are all things, to whom be glory forever.
Amen. ”
• Rom. 12:1 “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.”

14. God's sacrifice
• 3John. 1:4 “I have no greater joy than to hear
that my children walk in truth.”
• Ecclesiastes 2:26 To the person who pleases
him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and
happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task
of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it
over to the one who pleases God. This too is
meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

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