What do these Have in Common Genesis 6:7 8

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What do these Have in Common?Genesis 67 8

• The Lord said, "I will blot out man whom I have
  created from the face of the land, from man to
  animals to creeping things and to birds of the
  sky for I am sorry that I have made them."
• But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

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What do these Have in Common?Genesis 613 22

• Thus Noah did according to all that God had
  commanded him, so he did. (v. 22)

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What do these Have in Common?Genesis 1710 11,
23

• This is My covenant, which you shall keep,
  between Me and you and your descendants after
  you every male among you shall be circumcised
  and it shall be the sign of the covenant between
  Me and you.
• Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the
  servants who were born in his house and all who
  were bought with his money, every male among the
  men of Abraham's household, and circumcised the
  flesh of their foreskin in the very same day, as
  God had said to him.

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What do these Have in Common?Genesis 1819

• "I have chosen Abraham, so that he may command
  his children and his household after him to keep
  the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and
  justice, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham
  what He has spoken about him."

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What do these Have in Common?Genesis 1819

• "I have chosen Abraham, so that he may command
  his children and his household after him to keep
  the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and
  justice, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham
  what He has spoken about him."

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What do these Have in Common?2 Kings 181 7

• Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah became
  king and he reigned twenty-nine years in
  Jerusalem He did right in the sight of the Lord,
  according to all that his father David had
  donehe clung to the Lord he did not depart from
  following Him, but kept His commandments, which
  the Lord had commanded Moses. And the Lord was
  with him wherever he went he prospered.

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What do these Have in Common?2 Kings 51 3, 10
14

• Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Aram,
  was a great man because by him the Lord had
  given victory to Aram. The man was also a valiant
  warrior, but he was a leper.
• Now the Arameans had gone out in bands and had
  taken captive a little girl from the land of
  Israel and she waited on Naaman's wife. She said
  to her mistress, "I wish that my master were with
  the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure
  him of his leprosy."

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What do these Have in Common?2 Kings 51 3, 10
14

• Elisha sent a messenger, saying, "Go and wash in
  the Jordan seven times, and your flesh will be
  restored to you and you will be clean." But
  Naaman was furious and went away and said, "I
  thought, 'He will surely come out to me and stand
  and call on the name of the Lord his God, and
  wave his hand over the place and cure the leper
  So he turned and went away in a rage.
• Then his servants spoke to him and said, Had the
  prophet told you to do some great thing, would
  you not have done it? How much more then, when he
  says to you, 'Wash, and be clean'?" So he went
  down and dipped himself seven times in the
  Jordan, according to the word of the man of God
  and his flesh was restored.

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What do these Have in Common?John 91 7

• As He passed by, He saw a man blind from
  birthJesus spat on the ground, and made clay
  of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes,
  and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of
  Siloam.
• So he went away and washed, and came back seeing.

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What do these Have in Common?

• Noah
• Abraham
• Hezekiah
• Naaman
• Blind Man

• All of them had to do something in order to
  receive their benefit from the Lord.

Their salvation was not earned it was a gift
from God but their obedience was required in
order to receive the blessing.
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Christ Commands Obedience for Those Seeking
Salvation

• Having been made perfect, He became to all those
  who obey Him the source of eternal salvation,
  (Hebrews 59)

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Christ Commands Obedience for Those Seeking
Salvation

• "He who believes in the Son has eternal life but
  he who does not obey the Son will not see life,
  but the wrath of God abides on him." (John 336)

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Christ Commands Obedience for Those Seeking
Salvation

• "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in
  My love just as I have kept My Father's
  commandments and abide in His love. (John 1510)

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Christ Commands Obedience for Those Seeking
Salvation

• Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep
  the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
  (Revelation 1412)

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What Has He Commanded of Us?

• Mark 1616
• 1 Peter 49
• Philippians 23 4
• Matthew 633

• Belief and Baptism in order to be saved.
• Be hospitable to one another without complaint
• Regard others as more important than yourself
• Seek Gods kingdom first, before anything else.

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Are You Obedient to God?