Obedience

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Obedience

• Hereby We Know

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• Learned obedience by His suffering, Heb.
  58-9
• Author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,
  Acts 1034-35

JESUS
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• The action of faith, Heb. 118
• hupakouo To listen, to harkento a command to
  obeysubmit (Thayer)
• To heed, obey, 1 Sam. 1522
  Jer. 723-24

OBEDIENCE
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• To obey God Must listen and then submit to the
  commands of Christ, Acts 322-23
• Gods promise When we obey we can be assured and
  confident of our standing with Him (2
  Cor. 517 Rom. 51-2)

OBEDIENCE
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• That we KNOW Him, 1 Jno. 23-4
• Know Him A knowledge grounded in personal
  experience
• ginosko to learn to know, come to know, get a
  knowledge of to know, understand, perceive,
  have knowledge of (Thayer)

WE KNOW
Personal Experience with Jesus is obtained
by OBEDIENCE!
OBEDIENCE
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WE KNOW

• To obey the doctrine of Christ is to have (to
  experience) the Father and the Son, 2 Jno. 9
• Disobedient do not know God their sin is
  punished, 2 Ths. 18

Personal Experience with Jesus is obtained
by OBEDIENCE!
OBEDIENCE
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• That we LOVE Him, Jno. 1415, 21, 23-24
• Do not obey Christ do not love Christ
• Love is an action of your will that yields to
  the will of Christ

WE KNOW
LOVE is not an emotional overwhelming It is an
action of your will
OBEDIENCE
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• That we LOVE Him, Jno. 1415, 21, 23-24
• Plan of salvation (Mk. 1616)
• True worship (Jno. 424)
• Godly living (1 Pet. 211)
• Apostolic examples (Phil. 49)

WE KNOW
LOVE is not an emotional overwhelming It is an
action of your will
OBEDIENCE
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• That we LOVE Him, Jno. 1415, 21, 23-24
• The love of God is mature in the obedient
  person, 1 John 25
• Let us not boast of loving God when we will not
  obey His word! Mk. 1229-30

WE KNOW
LOVE is not an emotional overwhelming It is an
action of your will
OBEDIENCE
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• That we ABIDE in Him, 1 Jno. 25-6
• With His word abiding in us we obey His
  commands, 1 Jno. 224 324
• Refuse His wordforfeit fellowship, 2 John 9

WE KNOW
ABIDE IN To remain with to be in relation
with Christ
OBEDIENCE
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• That we have ETERNAL LIFE, Heb. 59
• Obedience affects eternal salvation, Matt. 721
  Acts 1034-35 2 Pet. 110-11
• Obedience is not meritorious - it is the service
  of faith, Lk. 1710 Rom. 616-18
• Submissive, not legalistic, Eph. 28-9 Jas.
  222, 24

WE KNOW
Obedience has an impact on Eternal Life
OBEDIENCE
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• That we have ETERNAL LIFE, Heb. 59
• To repent of every sin (Lk. 133)
• To confess Him (Matt. 1032)
• To be baptized to be saved (Mk. 1616)
• To cleanse our hands and hearts (Jas. 47-8)
• To be faithful even to the point of death (Rev.
  210)

WE KNOW
Obedience acts when God speaks unto Eternal Life
OBEDIENCE
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• That we FEAR Him, Gen. 221-2, 7-8, 12-14
• Pharaohs disobedience showed he did not fear
  God, Exo. 928-30, 34-35
• Israel paid lip service to God yet did not fear
  Him, Isa. 2913 Micah 311-12

GOD KNOWS
God rejects lip service!
OBEDIENCE
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• That we BELIEVE Him, Heb. 316-42, 6
• God knew by Israels disobedience that they
  did not believe Him, Psalm
  7856-57
• God knew Abrahams obedient faith, Gen. 1819

GOD KNOWS
Obedience shows our trust in God
OBEDIENCE
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• Does God know you because of your obedient faith?
• Do you know God due to your obedient faith?
• Wrath is reserved for those who do not obey the
  truth, Rom. 28 (2 Ths. 18-9)

OBEY JESUS NOW!
OBEDIENCE