Playing God

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In war, everyone thinks they're right. When people fight, they want to be right, which means to be without penalty. They think that being right overrides penalty. But right is when God tells you to kill as with the prophet Samuel in 1 Samuel chapter 15.

Only when God tells you to kill will you have no penalty because only God is right when He kills. If God tells you to kill (Ecc. 3:3) and you kill for God, then there are no consequences to pay because you did right. God told you to do it.

That's how people want to be when they kill. They want to be above law and penalty. But you're not right if you don't listen to God. Otherwise, you will reap what you sow (Gal. 6:7, 8). He who lives by the sword will die by the sword (Mt. 26:52). What you do comes back to you. Karmic debt. God's law of equity (Ps. 98:9).

There are penalties to pay if God tells you to kill and you don't, as with Saul (1 Sam. 15:7-11). If you play God, you will pay for it with God's divine law of equity. Your sins will take your life as with king Agag (Pr. 5:22/ Ps. 7:10-16). If you don't kill for God, you will pay for it with God's law of equity, and your sins will take your life as happened to king Saul (1 Sam. 31:4, 5).

Life is not about fighting your way. It's about listening to God, which is what Saul did not do when he didn't kill king Agag, and which is what prophet Samuel did when he killed king Agag for the Lord.

You can see with the life of king Agag, that he who lives by the sword will die by the sword. He made women childless by killing their sons with his sword, and the Lord used prophet Samuel (it was supposed to be king Saul) to execute God's divine equity upon his life with Saul's sword. The life of king Agag is an example of what God's law of equity does to someone who fights on their own without God. Your weapon will turn on you. Listen to God if He says to kill and if He says not to. Whatever God says, do it (Ecc. 12:13, 14).

Only when you listen to the Lord will you be above the law when you kill. You can't kill without God. God kills. But when you do things your own way, you're going to have a messed-up life.

Put your sword down and listen to the Lord. Put your sword down and you will live (Eze. 33:11). Any other way is fighting God and that will end your life (Acts 5:38, 39). If you kill people, you'll be killed by God. Those whom God uses to kill you will not have to pay any kind of equity like you are that are killed by God for killing people.

1 Samuel 15

Modern English Version

The Lord Rejects Saul

1 Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you to be king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the words of the Lord.

² Thus says the Lord of Hosts, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

³ Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not have compassion on them but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

⁴ So Saul summoned the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah.

⁵ Then Saul came to the city of Amalek and laid an ambush in the valley.

⁶ 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 children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

⁷ Then Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah until you come to Shur, which is near Egypt.

⁸ He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

⁹ But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, oxen, fatlings, and lambs. And of all that was good, they were not willing to utterly destroy them. But everything that was despised and weak, that they completely destroyed.

¹⁰ Then came the word of the Lord to Samuel, saying,

¹¹ “I regret that I have set up Saul to be king because he has turned back from following Me, and he has not carried out My words.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried to the Lord all night.

¹² When Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, “Saul came to Carmel and set himself up a monument. Then he turned and has passed on down to Gilgal.”

¹³ Samuel came to Saul. And Saul said to him, “Blessed are you of the Lord. I have carried out the word of the Lord.”

¹⁴ Samuel said, “Then what is the sound of this flock of sheep in my ears? And the sound of the cattle which I am hearing?”

¹⁵ And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites. For the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”

¹⁶ Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop, and I will tell you what the Lord spoke to me this night.”

And he said to him, “Speak.”

¹⁷ Samuel said, “When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed you king over Israel?

¹⁸ And the Lord sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are destroyed.’

¹⁹ Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? And why did you rush upon the spoil and do evil in the sight of the Lord?”

²⁰ And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the Lord. And I have followed in the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

²¹ But the people took from the plunder sheep and oxen, the first fruits of the banned things to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”

²² Samuel said,

“Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Obedience is better than sacrifice, a listening ear than the fat of rams.

²³ For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king.”

²⁴ Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned. For I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

²⁵ Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me, that I may worship the Lord.”

²⁶ Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

²⁷ As Samuel turned about to go, he seized the edge of his robe and it tore.

²⁸ Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

²⁹ Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent. For He is not a man, that He should repent.”

³⁰ Then he said, “I have sinned, yet please honor me before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn back with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”

³¹ So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul worshipped the Lord.

³² Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag the king of the Amalekites.”

And Agag came to him reluctantly. But Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

³³ Samuel said,

“As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.”

And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

³⁴ Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

³⁵ Now Samuel did not see Saul up to the day of his death. But Samuel mourned for Saul and the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

What to Do

Inquire of the Lord

When you are tempted to act on your own, do what made David better than Saul (1 Sam. 15:28). Instead of disobeying God like Saul did (1 Sam. 15:1-11), do like the better man David did and inquire of the Lord what to do instead of act on your own. To inquire of the Lord means to pray. Ask God what to do and listen for His word. Don't do things without first inquiring of the Lord.

1 Samuel 23:2

Modern English Version

² Therefore David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?”

And the Lord said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines, and rescue Keilah.”

³ The men of David said to him, “We are afraid here in Judah. How much more then, if we go down to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

⁴ Then David again inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered him and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah because I am giving the Philistines into your hand.”

2 Samuel 2:1

Modern English Version

David Anointed King Over Judah

2 After this, David consulted the Lord, asking, “Shall I go to one of the cities of Judah?”

The Lord responded to him, “Go up.”

David asked, “Where should I go?”

And He said, “Hebron.”

2 Samuel 5:19-25

Modern English Version

¹⁹ So David asked the Lord, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You give them into my hand?”

The Lord said to David, “Go up, because I will certainly give them into your hand.”

²⁰ So David came to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. He said, “The Lord has breached my enemies before me like bursting tides.” Therefore, he named that place Baal Perazim.

²¹ The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.

²² Once again, the Philistines went up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

²³ When David inquired of the Lord, He said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them and come against them opposite the trees.

²⁴ When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the trees, pay attention, because at that point the Lord is going before you to defeat the army of the Philistines.”

²⁵ So David did just as the Lord commanded, and he defeated the Philistines from Geba as far as Gezer.

1 Chronicles 14:10

Authorized (King James) Version

¹⁰ And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the Lord said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.

This Is Not a Religion

Romans 8:9

Modern English Version

⁹ You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

The Lord tells me that religious people read this post. Religious people means people who believe in Jesus but are not born-again. They have a religious tenet to listen to God and want to enquire of the Lord instead of fight, but it's not coming from the born-again need to please God. It's religious tenet who believe that listening to God gets them to heaven. It does only if you've been born-again. Jesus said in John 3:3-5 that one cannot see or enter heaven unless you've been born-again.

So, God wants to tell these religious people here that this message is for those with the Holy Spirit. When you get born-again, it's the Holy Spirit who does it. It's called the washing, renewing and regeneration of the Holy Spirit (Ti. 3:4-7). That's when God gives you a new heart, a new spirit and puts His Spirit inside you to make you listen to Him (Eze. 36:25-27). You are a new creation. The old man has been crucified, and a new eternal life is inside you (2 Cor. 5:17).

God is writing to born-again people here and in every message here on this website. Born-again people are mortifying and sanctifying their old ways to please God with messages like this (Jn. 17:17/ Rom. 8:5-14/ Col. 3:5/ 2 Thes. 2:13-17).

Inquiring of the Lord in prayer about fighting is a pleasure ("My pleasure, Lord) because we've been born-again. This post is an answer to someone's prayers who needs to please God with obedience. I don't remember what it's like to be religious ... you listen to God out of religious tenet means that you're a believer that needs to be born-again (Acts 19:1-7).

What to Do

Ask God for the Holy Spirit

Now God is talking to the religious people. What to do is ask God to baptize you into the Holy Spirit because you already believe in Jesus. Read the following and pray the prayers, you'll meet God the Spirit today when you do.

An Invitation from the Holy Spirit to Get Baptized into the Holy Spirit

This is Only for Believers in Jesus

There are people out there who have not met the Lord yet in the baptism into the Holy Spirit. You're like the believers in Acts 19:1-7 that believed in Jesus through the Holy Spirit, but they were not filled with the Holy Spirit. You believe but you don't have that living water inside you yet.

Acts 19:1-6

Modern English Version

Receive the Holy Spirit

1 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples

² and said to them, “Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed?”

They said to him, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

³ He said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?”

They said, “Into John’s baptism.”

⁴ Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Christ Jesus.”

⁵ When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

⁶ When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in other tongues and prophesied.

There is only one prerequisite, one thing that God requires for you to meet the Holy Spirit; to get baptized into the Holy Spirit, and that is to believe in Jesus. Maybe you believe but have never asked Jesus to become your Lord and Savior, I'll show you how to confess Christ and receive the Holy Spirit, and at the end there is a prayer in red which means that the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus spoke through me and so, those words in red hold power because they are not my words, but God's ... when you say them you will receive the baptism into the Holy Spirit from Jesus through His word.

Excerpt taken from my message, "There Are Believers And There Are Born-Again Believers",

Click Me to read, "There Are Believers And There Are Born-Again Believers" (BY Darrin Pegram - 2025)

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The Point of This Message

Receive the Holy Spirit

If you believe in Jesus but have not been born again, or don't know if you have been born again, I can give the Holy Spirit to you through the word about Him. Jesus said to receive the Holy Spirit to simply ask God the Father for Him ... if you are expecting the Holy Spirit to come upon you, He will come ...

There are believers and there are born-again believers. Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed in Jesus? Without the Holy Spirit inside you, you will not conquer sin, the devil and the world ... Jesus says to ask God for Him ...

Luke 11:9-13

Authorized (King James) Version

9 And I say unto you,

Ask, and it shall be given you;

seek, and ye shall find;

knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

10 For every one that asketh receiveth;

and he that seeketh findeth;

and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?

or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?

13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children:

how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

An Offering

The Sinner's Prayer

The Confession of the Word of Faith in Christ

Romans 10:6-17 

Authorized (King James) Version

{Paraphrased}

God's Saving & Healing Power in the Bible

The Word of Faith & Salvation

6 But the {right standing with God} which {comes from biblically created faith}

speaks {in this way in the Bible about how to get saved through faith from sin & death},

"Say not in {your} heart, 'Who shall ascend into heaven'"? {Dt. 30:12}

(that is, to bring Christ down from above). 

7 or, "Who shall descend into the deep?" {Dt. 30:13}

(that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead). 

8 But what {does} it {say}?

"The word is {near you}. {It is in your} mouth, and in {your} heart

{from hearing the scriptures - Pr. 4:20-27}.

That is, the word of faith, which we preach.

9 That if you shall confess with {your} mouth the Lord Jesus

and shall believe in {your} heart that God has raised Him from the dead,

you shall be saved {from sin & death}.

10 For with the heart man believes {the scriptures about Jesus giving him right standing before God}

and with the mouth confession {of these scriptures about Jesus} is made

giving him God's salvation from sin & death through that confession of faith in Christ}.

11 For the scripture {says},

"Whoever believes on {Jesus the Son of God} shall not be ashamed" {Isa. 28:16}.

12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the {Gentile}.

For the same Lord over all is rich {in faith & salvation} to all that call upon Him {through the scriptures}. 13 "For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord {Jesus}

shall be saved {from sin & death - Joel 2:32}.

14 How then shall they call on {Christ for salvation from sin & death}

if {they do not believe in Him}?

And how shall they believe in {Christ if} they have not {first} heard about Him?

And how shall they hear without a preacher {telling them what the scriptures say about Him}?

15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent {by God to do this}?

As it is written,

"How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace

{with God through faith in His Son Jesus} and bring glad tidings of good things"! {Isa. 52:7}

16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel.

For {Isaiah says},

"Lord, who has believed our report {in the Old Testament prophecies that God's Son Jesus

is the long-awaited and prophesied Savior from sin & death"? {Isa. 53:1}

17 So then faith {in Christ as the Lord & Savior from sin & death}

comes by hearing, and hearing by {what} the word of God {the Bible prophecies say about Him.

To get faith to call upon the Lord Jesus for salvation from sin & death,

listen to what God's preachers tell you about Jesus & read for yourself what the Bible says about Him}.

What the Holy Spirit is saying in this passage is that to get saved, you need to do verses 9 and 10 highlighted in bold case above. That is, confess with your mouth the scriptures about Jesus being the Lord of sin and death because you believe them, and you will be saved from sin and death by your confession of faith in what the Bible says about Jesus dying and raising from the dead for your sins.

The Holy Spirit is telling you in this passage that if you want to believe in Jesus and be saved from sin and death, then read what the Bible says about Him, because faith in Jesus comes, or, is created in your heart and mouth, when you read the Bible. Read what the Bible says about the Lord Jesus in the New Testament and you will be saved when you tell God and this world that you believe what the Bible says about Jesus. To do this is called the Confession of the Word of Faith in Christ, and the Sinner's Prayer. Let me lead you in the Sinner's Prayer.

The Sinner's Prayer

The Confession of the Word of Faith in Christ the Lord

"Lord Jesus. I believe in You. I believe that you died for my sins and rose from the dead and that you are alive today right here with me now as I tell you that I believe in You".

"Please forgive me of my sins through my faith in your shed Blood on the Cross, and please raise me from the dead by my faith in Your resurrection. Thank you, Lord, for saving me from sin and death. In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen".

Get your Bible out and read John, Acts and Romans in the New Testament ... and know that the tears that flood your eyes when you pray the Sinner's Prayer are coming from the Presence of God. That's God the Holy Spirit you're sensing and that's why you're crying as you pray this prayer. God is love (1 Jn. 4:7, 8) and when you meet Him, you can't but cry around Him. It's called "godly sorrow" (2 Cor. 7:9-11).

Now, I want to use my anointing & authority in Christ to baptize you into the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is Heaven's guarantee. There are believers, and there are born again believers (Acts 19:1-6). Please pray this prayer below and you will meet God the Holy Spirit instantly...

The Holy Spirit Is Heaven's Guarantee​

Ephesians 1:13, 14

Living Bible

{Paraphrased}

13 And because of what Christ did {on the Cross}, all you others too, who heard the Good News about how to be saved, and trusted Christ, were marked as belonging to Christ by the Holy Spirit, who long ago had been promised to all of us Christians.

14 His presence within us is God’s guarantee that he really will give us all that he promised;

and the Spirit’s seal upon us means that God has already purchased us and that he guarantees

to bring us to himself.

This is just one more reason for us to praise our glorious God.

My Prophetic Intercession for Your Baptism into the Holy Spirit

Since you are reading my Page and hearing Jesus call you to the Rapture here,

I will use my Prophetic Anointing and ask the Holy Spirit to give me a prayer for you

to be baptized into the Holy Spirit NOW.

Read the prayer and receive the Holy Spirit...

"I am using my anointing and authority with Christ to pronounce you dead in Christ

And renewed to life by the Ever-Living Presence of God."

said the Holy Ghost...

"NOW RETURN TO ME AND BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST!"

said the Lord Jesus...

A Stern Admonishment from the Lord

I'm getting vibes back from the Lord on this message. A few hours after I finished it, the Lord commented on it to me. The Holy Spirit said it pretty sternly ... I don't think it's for me because I know who He is. So, I think it's for you; for some reader out there and you will get this message from Him, as surely as He spoke it.

Well, He sat there with a serious face and said,

"Do you know who I am? I'm the Lord. I'm God. What I say goes. If you don't listen to it, you die. That's the only meaning of your life".

Do you know what He's talking about? Killing king Agag like that. Getting cut to pieces by the Lord for killing people with His sword instead of listening to God. Also, about prophet Samuel listening to God and king Saul not listening to God.

1 Corinthians chapter 15 is about listening to God. You got that message in this post and the Lord is commenting on it to you saying that the only meaning to your life; of our life, of anyone's life, including the angels, is to listen to Him.

Isn't that so true? How absolutely fulfilling it is to nourish that born-again need to please and listen to God, by listening to Him ... it's the very meaning of life ...

Getting Chopped Up by God

The Holy Spirit wants to add something in this post right here ... God wants you to read 1 Samuel 15:32, 33 again ...

1 Samuel 15:32-33

Modern English Version

³² Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag the king of the Amalekites.”

And Agag came to him reluctantly. But Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

³³ Samuel said,

“As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.”

And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

People getting chopped up by the Lord like this will happen again. The Lord killed king Agag with Samuel and Saul. Saul was supposed to kill him, but he held him captive, and Samuel did the killing for the Lord.

The Holy Spirit wants to tell you here that chopping people up like this is what God has specifically reserved for Christians on judgement day who don't listen to God in this life ... I'll find the scriptures that the Holy Spirit is putting in my memory for you to see (John 14:26) ...

Matthew 24:48-51

Modern English Version

⁴⁸ But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master delays his coming,’

⁴⁹ and begins to strike his fellow servants and eat and drink with the drunkards,

⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not look for him and in an hour he is not aware of

⁵¹ and will cut him in pieces and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Luke 19:20-27

Modern English Version

²⁰ “Then another came, saying, ‘Master, look, here is your pound, which I have kept put away in a napkin. ²¹ For I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’

²² “He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an exacting man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.

²³ Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, so that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’

²⁴ “Then he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the pound from him and give it to him who has ten pounds.’

²⁵ “They said to him, ‘Master, he has ten pounds.’

²⁶ “ ‘I tell you that to everyone who has will be given. But from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away from him.

²⁷ But as for those enemies of mine, who would not let me reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’ ”

It's going to be an angel slashing up "servants", or bad fruit; bad Christians, who did not listen to God in life. What prophet Samuel did to king Agag will be done again on judgement day to Christians who will live like Agag and Saul and not listen to God ... that's what the Holy Spirit said to you here ... so, take it to heart because He wants to save you from that fate ...

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To Obey is Better Than Sacrifice

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World without end. Amen.