Day 109: A Heart of Obedience (2026)
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Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 109, and we are reading from 1 Samuel chapter 15 and 16.
What passages are we reading on Day 109 (Which chapters of 1 Samuel and which Psalm)?
We're also praying Psalm 61 is always the Bible translation that I am using and reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I am actually reading from the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to get that, you can track it down at ascensionpress.com or at amazon.com or wherever Bibles are sold. Maybe Bible.com. I don't even know. Let me buy a Bible.com. Slapped on there. I don't know. If you want to download your Bible in a year reading plan, you can also visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year.
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You also, if you have not yet subscribed to this podcast, click on subscribe and then you'll be subscribed and your whole life will change for the better. I think. I mean, I'm not making any promises. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. As I said, today is 109 and we are reading from 1 Samuel chapter 15 and 16 and praying Psalm 61. 1 Samuel 15. Saul defeats the Amalekites, but disobeys. And Samuel said to Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint you king over this people Israel. Now, therefore, listen to the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts, I will punish what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and strike Amalek. and utterly destroy all that they have, do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Talim, 200,000 men on foot, 10,000 men of Judah. And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait 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 kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites, and Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt. And he took Agag, the king of the Amalekites, alive and and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them.
All that was despised and worthless, they utterly destroyed. The Lord rejects Saul for his disobedience. The word of the Lord came to Samuel. I repent that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments. And Samuel was angry and he cried to the Lord all night. And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, Saul came to Carmel. And behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal. and samuel came to saul and saul said to him blessed be you to the lord i have performed the commandment of the lord and samuel said what then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen which i hear saul said
They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God and the rest we have utterly destroyed. Then Samuel said to Saul, Stop, I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night. And he said to him, Say on. And Samuel said, Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel, and the Lord sent you on a mission and said, Go, utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed. Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–0:27
2
What passages are we reading on Day 109 (Which chapters of 1 Samuel and which Psalm)?
0:27–0:54
3
How does Father Mike introduce the Bible in a Year plan and reading resources?
0:54–6:17
4
What is the summary of 1 Samuel 15 and Saul’s disobedience?
6:17–10:59
5
Why did Saul spare King Agag and the best livestock instead of obeying God completely?
10:59–17:35