Welcome to the Intouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, June 12th.

You might be able to figure out a lot of things, but reasoning in the absence of faith leads

to trouble.

Let's learn a valuable lesson from the life of King Saul in today's message, Satan's

Successful Snare.

I want to take just a moment to read a passage in 1 Samuel 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 of 1 Samuel, Samuel said to Saul, the Lord sent me to anoint you

as King over his people, over Israel.

Now 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 you as

King of Israel.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, 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, camaline, duck and we say, my

goodness, what kind of a God is that?

And what we don't realize is that from God's point of view, anything that would bring about

our Dollar Tree and the dispersion of his people and endanger their faith in him was an

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