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Summary: This message is about how our obedience to God impacts (grows) our faith without which it is impossible to please God.

God cared more about Saul’s obedience than his sacrifices. Samuel makes it clear that God cares more about our obeying Him than any sacrifice we can offer. You make a “sacrifice” to come to Church, yet God cares more about the fact that you obey Him. You make a “sacrifice” to give, yet God cares more about your obedience than your sacrifice. You make a “sacrifice” to help others, yet God cares more about your obedience. There is absolutely NO sacrifice that we can ever make that will be more important to God than our absolute obedience to Him. It is our obedience that will move God faster than our faith. If our faith is not in line with our obedience, we will not have the faith God needs to move in our lives. If I am not willing to obey God, it will not matter how much faith I think I have; my inability to be obedient will cancel out God acting on my faith. Obey first, the faith will follow. You cannot have true faith without obedience.

If you have faith that is very small, if it’s small that it would take a high powered microscope to see it, your obedience to God will undergird your faith enabling it to move mountains in your life! Why do I say this? Because when God tell us to do something and we do it out of obedience we are exercising some faith in God even though it might not be the faith you’re accustomed to hearing people talk about. We might have a little faith, but the more obedient we are to God and believing His word, the more our faith will grow. It’s simple math: faith plus obedience equals results. This is what we are missing today. There are so many ministries out there teaching that all you need is faith and people are walking around depressed thinking God that is disappointed in them because their faith is weak. I am standing before you today to tell you that if you think that you have much faith, little faith or no faith at all, God will move on your behalf because of your obedience to Him because your simple obedience proves that your faith in God is evident. If God tells you to do something you do not have to know the ending, just be obedient and see what happens. Turn to Luke 5:1-7.

“(1) So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, (2) and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. (3) Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. (4) When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, ‘Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.’ (5) But Simon answered and said to Him, ‘Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.’ (6) And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. (7) So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.” (Luke 5:1-7)

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