Bible Oughts

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Bible Oughts

• Genesis 34.7

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We Ought To Obey God

• Acts 5.29 Then Peter and the other apostles
  answered and said, We ought to obey God rather
  than men.
• This is a good attitude that needs to be
  cultivated among Gods people today

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We Ought To Obey God

• God must be obeyed
• Romans 6.17-18 But God be thanked, that ye were
  the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the
  heart that form of doctrine which was delivered
  you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the
  servants of righteousness.

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We Ought To Obey God

• God must be obeyed
• 1 John 5.2-3 By this we know that we love the
  children of God, when we love God, and keep his
  commandments. For this is the love of God, that
  we keep his commandments and his command-ments
  are not grievous.

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We Ought Always To Pray

• Luke 18.1 And he spoke a parable unto them to
  this end, that men ought always to pray, and not
  to lose heart
• Romans 8.26 We know not what we should pray
  for as we ought

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We Ought Always To Pray

• 1 Thess. 5.17 Pray without ceasing
• Ephesians 6.18 Praying always with all prayer
  and supplication in the Spirit
• Prayer should be a regular part of our everyday
  lives

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Men Ought To Love Their Wives

• Ephesians 5.28-30 So ought men to love their
  wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife
  loves himself. For no man ever yet hated his own
  flesh but nourishes and cherishes it, even as
  the Lord the church For we are members of his
  body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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Men Ought To Love Their Wives

• Ephesians 5.25 Husbands, love your wives, even
  as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself
  for it
• This love is the disposition of the heart that
  seeks her very best.

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Men Ought To Love Their Wives

• 1 Corinthians 13.4-8 Love is patient and kind
  love does not envy or boast it is not arrogant
  or rude. It does not insist on its own way it
  is not irritable or resentful it does not
  rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the
  truth. Love bears all things, believes all
  things, hopes all things, endures all things.
  Love never ends.

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We Ought To Give The More Earnest Heed

• Hebrews 2.1 Therefore we ought to give the more
  earnest heed to the things which we have heard,
  lest at any time we should let them slip.
• We need to study and pay strict attention to
  Gods Word!

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We Ought To Give The More Earnest Heed

• Bible emphasizes hearing and doing
• Romans 2.13 For not the hearers of the law are
  just before God, but the doers of the law shall
  be justified.

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We Ought To Give The More Earnest Heed

• Bible emphasizes hearing and doing
• James 1.22-25 But be ye doers of the word, and
  not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For
  if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer,
  he is like unto a man beholding his natural face
  in a glass For he beholds himself, and

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We Ought To Give The More Earnest Heed

• Bible emphasizes hearing and doing
• James 1.22-25 goes his way, and straightway
  forgets what manner of man he was. But whoso
  looks into the perfect law of liberty, and
  continues therein, he being not a forgetful
  hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be
  blessed in his deed.

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We Ought To Give The More Earnest Heed

• Acts 20.32 And now, brethren, I commend you to
  God, and to the word of his grace, which is able
  to build you up, and to give you an inheritance
  among all them which are sanctified.

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We Ought To Love One Another

• 1 John 4.11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we
  ought also to love one another.

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We Ought To Love One Another

• God loved us enough to send His Son!
• 1 John 4.9-10 In this was manifested the love
  of God toward us, because that God sent his only
  begotten Son into the world, that we might live
  through him. Herein is love, not that we loved
  God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be
  the propitiation for our sins.

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We Ought To Love One Another

• Loving God requires loving your brother
• 1 John 4.20-21 If a man says, I love God, and
  hates his brother, he is a liar for he that
  loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can
  he love God whom he has not seen? And this
  commandment have we from him, That he who loves
  God love his brother also.

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We Ought To Love One Another

• Love with a pure heart fervently
• 1 Peter 1.22 Seeing you have purified your
  souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit
  unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that you
  love one another with a pure heart fervently

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Have you done what you ought?

• Those who do as they ought, ought to understand
  their responsibility to obey.
• Peter told Cornelius what he ought to do He
  lodges with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is
  by the sea side he shall tell you what you ought
  to do. Acts 10.6

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Have you done what you ought?

• Cornelius and his household heard the Word,
  believed it, and obeyed through baptism (Acts
  10.44-48)
• Wont you come right now and do that which you
  ought?

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Gods Plan For Your Salvation

• Hear Gods Word Mt 17.5 Rom 10.17
• Believe in Christ John 8.24 Rom 10.9
• Repent of Sins Luke 13.3 Acts 2.38
• Confess Faith in Christ Rom 10.10
• Be Immersed in Water Mark 16.16
• Live Faithfully Rev 2.10 Col 1.21-23
• Repent of Sins Pray for Forgiveness - Acts 8.22
• Confess Sins - James 5.16 1 John 1.9

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We Ought To Bear The Infirmities of the Weak

• Romans 15.1

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We Ought To Be Teachers

• Hebrews 5.12