Navigate - to steer, direct, manage the choices of direction.
Roundabout - a circular traffic intersection of multiple roads.
Identity - the distinct characteristics, values, beliefs, and memories of an individual. “The condition of
being the same with something described.”

3 CONSTRUCTS OF IDENTITY
Accepted identity - who God says I am - I am the same as His description of me.
Ownership identity - simply accepting what God has already said about you.
Commissioned identity - accepting Who God is in me.

3 CONSTRUCTS OF OBEDIENCE

IMMEDIATE - slow obedience is disobedience.
VOLUNTARY - forced obedience is complying with authority by external pressure, coercion, threats of punishment, rather than through personal choice or moral conviction.
COMPLETE- partial obedience is disobedience.

3 - utterly destroy all - ban for use totally. Immediately, voluntarily, and completely.

9 - Saul spared Agag and the best - have no pity on.
- not willing to destroy them utterly - those things of value they spared.
- everything despised and worthless - those things not valued are destroyed.

13 - I have carried out the command of the Lord - his “opinion” concerning the command.
15 - the people spared the best - what is best in quality or worth (by their own value system).
19 - you rushed upon the spoil - to rush upon greedily.
21 - the people took the choicest to sacrifice - his justification for disobedience.
22 - to obey is better than sacrifice - the better of two alternatives; more useful and profitable, more abundant and plentiful, more kind and benevolent, more proper and becoming.
23 - rebellion is the sin of divination - stubborn disobedience is witchcraft.
- insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry - physical push against authority as empty and futile pursuits and the worship of idols.

2 - Arise and go, his identity is to cry against the city.
3 - Rose up to flee from the presence of the Lord.

* Obedience moves us into the presence of the Lord.

4 - the storm is the Lord’s response.
5 - the pagans called on their gods.
8 - what is your occupation - deputyship, the identity created from WHO you work for.

* Disobedience distances us from our identity.

10 - How could you do this? They knew he was fleeing from his God.
14 - they called on the Lord so that they would not be guilty of his blood.
17 - the Lord appointed a fish - how long has the fished followed the ship by God’s design?

* God always provides for the re-routing and the future roundabouts of your life.