Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

You may be smart, capable, and good at solving problems, but reasoning without faith can take you in the wrong direction.

Today, King Saul's story shows us how to avoid that mistake.

I want to take just a moment to read a passage in 1 Samuel chapter 15.

I want to talk about one of Satan's most successful snares.

Usually, he pulls this trick on us.

We're not even aware of what's happening because we're so action-oriented and so

we sort of pride ourselves in being busy and serving the Lord

and sometimes that can be a snare and in the 15th chapter 1st samuel samuel said to saul

the lord sent me to anoint you as king over his people over, therefore, listen to the words of the Lord.

He said, I want to tell you what God has told me to say to you, having anointed

Jewish king of Israel.

Thus says the Lord of Hose, I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he set

himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt.

Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him,

but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, Camelaine, dunking. We say, my goodness,

what kind of a God is that? What we don't realize is that from God's point of view, anything

that would bring about idolatry and the dispersion of his people, and in danger their faith in

him was an enemy of God. Then Saul summoned the people and numbered

them in Tiliam, 200,000 foot soldiers, and 10,000 men of Judah. Saul came to the city of Amalek and set

an ambush in the valley. And Saul said to the Kenites, go depart, go down from among the Amalekites,

lest I destroy you with them, for you showed

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