If you love me, you will obey what I have command. He who does not love will not obey my teaching. John 14:15,24 Obedience!! Do you find it hard or easy? Do you understand what God expects of us with obedience?? Read 1 John 2:3-6. What do we learn about the word know? How do we know we have come to know God? What happens if we do t know God? Let’s read Jeremiah 7:23. Read John 7: 16-17. What are some benefits of obedience? God blesses those who obey him. The benefits of obeying are beyond our imagination. Here are a few though to mention. First, we are…
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Obedience – Part 2
If you love me, you will obey what I command. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. John 14:15, 24 Are you a servant of God? If you are the you do what God directs. We obey Him. As servants to God we do not have an option to decide whether or not we will obey. When we decide to not obey, we are in rebellion. Choosing disobedience has serious consequences. What is obedience? Obedience means joy and uninterrupted fellowship with God. People today are self-centered and want to do their own thing. They don’t stop to consider what obedience means in their lives. There…
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Obedience Is Costly: Part 2
From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more, John 6:6-7 Have you obeyed God and that obedience was costly to those around you? Let’s take a look at Exodus 5:1-21. When Moses obeyed God and told Pharaoh to let Israel go, how did it cost the Israelites? What did it cost them? When Moses obeyed God, the work load of the children of Israel was increased and the Israelites foremen were beaten. The Israelites paid a high cost for Moses to do the will of God. We have to trust that will care for those around us. He will communicate with His people. …
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Different Kinds Of Adjustment
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9 Do you have absolute surrender to God? Do you know that God is interested in absolute surrender? There are many different kinds of adjustment that one may have to make when we surrender to God. It also make require more than one area of adjustments to be made. Here is a list of areas of adjustments that we may have to make in our lives: In our circumstances (job, home, finances, and others), in our relationships (family, friends, business associates, and others), in our thinking (prejudices,…
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When Adjustments Are Necessary
Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot by my disciple. Luke 14:33 Have you ever want to do what God asked you to do, but didn’t want to make any adjustments in your life? We want God to speak to us and ask us to do things for him. However, we don’t want to make any major adjustments in our lives though. When God spoke to the people in the Bible about what He wanted to do through them, they needed to make some adjustments in their lives. They had to adjust their lives to God. When those adjustments happened, God accomplished His purposes through…
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Servant Of God
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death – even death on the cross. Philippians 2:5-8 The Bible shows many passages of Jesus being God’s servant. He came to serve to accomplish God’s purposes. In Matthew 20:26-28 it says, “whoever wants to become great must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave –…
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Through Suffering Comes Joy
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer, and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him, he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-2 Do you believe that since we are believers that God helps those who help themselves? We think that since we are believers life will be easy. However, this thought is so wrong. Scripture…
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Praise The Name Of The Lord
Praise the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord; praise him, you servants of the Lord, you who minister in the house of the Lord, you who minister in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. Praise the Lord, for the Lord, is good; sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant. For the Lord has chosen Jacob to be his own, Israel to be his treasured possession. Psalms 135:1-4 Did you know there are 3 facts why we praise God? Fact #1: God brought Israel into a saving covenant – relationship with him. This is a life agreement based on…
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Faith and Obedience
and was declared to be the son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace adn apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all nations. Romans 1: 4-5 Let’s look at the phrase “Spirit of Holiness”! This phrase is referring to the Holy Spirit. The third person in the Trinity. The Holy Spirit’s holiness seperates him from the spirit of humanity, sin, and the world. It describes both his characteristic and his work. Holiness is purity, perfection, completeness, and seperation from evil. The closer…