[Elsie]

Let me give you a helpful maxim, which is true always and forever, and should help to guide you for the rest of your life.

Obedience is better than sacrifice.

1 Samuel 15:22-24

[Songcraft]

"Obedience is better than sacrifice. 1 Samuel 15:22-24"

In that same chapter (Matthew 23) where that quote about calling men fathers comes from, Jesus also says that whatever the scribes and Pharisees bid you to observe and do, that you should observe and do.   (Matthew 23:1-3)   Elsie, do you obey Jesus, and observe and do all of the things the scribes and Pharisees bid you to do, Elsie, as Jesus instructed in that same chapter?