I. In the early part of I Samuel 15, Saul was commanded to utterly destroy the Amalekites and everything that belonged to them; however, Saul and the children of Israel spared the best of the sheep and cattle, and spared the life of Agag, the king of the Amalekites.
II. In the Exodus 32, Israel committed the sin of idolatry when they convinced Aaron to make a golden calf that they then worshipped and, in the process, corrupted themselves through immorality.

This morning we aren’t focusing in so much on the sins of the children of Israel, but rather on the events that took place after God began to deal with them, and particularly focusing in on the people’s relationship with God.

b. In King Saul we will see a man whose relationship with God was not his primary focus.
c. In Israel we see a people whose relationship with God was not always what it ought to be.
d. In Moses we will see a man whose relationship with God was not only his primary focus, but was in his own eyes indispensable and irreplaceable.